Word: final
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. Under Sam Peckinpah's direction, this film emerges as a huge and beautifully composed canvas of violence in the waning West. The script may be a campfire yarn, but the final shoot-out is one of the most raucous, violent and magnificent gun battles ever put on film...
Crucial Continents. Except for 100°-plus heat, Nixon's final two stops in Asia were more routine. India's Indira Gandhi was pleased with the beginning of U.S. troop withdrawals from Viet Nam, but -probably mindful of the running Indian disputes with Pakistan-was doubtful that collective security would be successful for the nations of the Asian periphery. Pakistan's Yahya Khan wanted to buy new arms from the U.S., but Nixon could only tell him that the matter was under review in Washington. The government-lining Pakistan Times rejected collective security as a trap that...
Like everything else that came back aboard Apollo 11, the film had to undergo elaborate decontamination procedures in Houston. Technicians were doubly cautious because, in a final checkout of their methods, a strip of test film was accidentally destroyed. The astronauts themselves were so curious about their photographic efforts that they waited up late one night to see the first results. They had every reason to be satisfied. Their pictures added up to a remarkable visual record of man's most adventurous journey...
...matter, Doris Lessing's new novel. The Four-Gates City, is something of a scoreboard on which the hits and misses of the second half of the twentieth century have been recorded. That that score is most often a losing one should surprise no one. In this, the final volume of her Children of Violence quintet, Mrs. Lessing takes her heroine Martha Quest from the ruins that passed as London after World War II and deposits her on the brink of the twenty-first century amid its assorted, but not at all surprising, cataclysms. As Martha passes through each successive...
...doing so, Martha attains a perspective that permits her to see, in the midst of the chaos, a terrible beauty being born. Around the world, mutant infants begin to appear. To their earthbound parents, these children that "see" and "hear" in dramatic new ways seem ethereal. In her final letter, Martha writes of such children on her own island, "These seven children are our--but we have no word for it. The nearest to it is that they are our guardians. They guard us." More remarkable still, these children of violence are born free of the curse of violence...