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...alcoholic beverages, the U.S. ranks 17th among the world's nations, behind such countries as Luxembourg, France and New Zealand. The Social Research Group of George Washington University reports that two of three adult Americans (21 and over) drink at least occasionally, one in eight drinks to excess and one in 16-or about 6,800,000-drinks enough to be classified as a problem drinker. The estimated 1967 consumption of some 4 billion gallons represents a record alcoholic tide, suggesting a land of serious, two-fisted drinkers...
...anatomized a multiple murder and in the process brought literary life to six dead people. They were the four members of the prosperous Clutter family of Holcomb, Kans., and their killers. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who were executed in 1965. Although the book was flawed by a seeming excess of sympathy for the criminals, it had the sweeping force and glare of high-beam headlights zooming down a forgotten country road. In Richard Brooks's film version, the candlepower is weakened, but the power and fascination of the story are undiminished. The nonfiction novel has become anything...
...island is reduced to only 950, the number Greece is legally entitled to station there under Cyprus' independence agreements. In reciprocation, the Turks called off their invasion preparations against Cyprus and Greece and agreed to withdraw the 1,500 or so troops that they infiltrated into Cyprus in excess of their 650-man legal allotment. Shrewdly calculating that the Greek rulers lacked the support both at home and abroad to stand up to a crisis, Turkish Premier Siileyman Demirel thus managed to break Greece's military hold on the island. He placed it, at least temporarily...
...Excess of Bureaucrats. Within the church, the mysterious process by which bishops are chosen has recently come in for some sharp criticism. Many Catholics feel that priests and laymen should have at least some indirect say in electing their bishops; others feel that the present system produces too many brick-and-mortar bureaucratic conformists and too few spiritual leaders with real pastoral qualities. Aware that the system needs updating, the U.S. hierarchy last April agreed to set up a special commission that would screen candidates proposed by all bishops. Some U.S. bishops-among them Bishop Clarence Issenmann of Cleveland-have...
...line with a gesture, but sometimes too, his compositions are simply too full of movement for good focus. On a few occasions, he has literally obscured potentially funny or significant dialog by drawing the audience's attention to some simultaneous comic bit. In a single instance, he shows an excess of reverence to the lines, freezing an admirably raucous forest banquet to a tableau, while Jaques (Kenneth Tiger) puts the "Seven Ages of Men" through their paces. On balance, though, Mr. Michaels has directed his actors to speak with speed, clarity and nuance, and they make many more verbal points...