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The pacing is director Terence Young's. Young did three of the James Bond films, yet this is a new field for him. The Bond films employed un-subtle gadgetry and exotic locales to produce the doses of excitement. In Wait Until Dark, Young is largely confined to a single...
"You can really sense their friendliness even if you don't understand the language," gurgled Sylvia Hitchcock, 21, the reigning Miss Universe and a girl well adapted to overcoming language barriers everywhere. After flying into Japan to hustle graciously for Royal Crown Cola, the company that sponsors her, Sylvia...
To most Americans, Reuters news service evokes images of far-distant lands and exotic exploits amid steamy jungles and lonely paddyfields. Oldtimers can probably remember Edward G.
One of the great educative experiences in the Peace Corps is that of being faced with impossible tasks. It should be understood that the Peace Corps is no exotic junket, made socially defensible by primarily physical strenuousness. What it does do is put people into positions of awesome and complicated...
Whether the Volunteers' two-year period overseas can also be made more fruitful intellectually is an open question. I've already suggested that a number of Volunteers enter the Peace Corps because they want a moratorium from academic life, and perhaps also from introspection. Can one imagine for such people...