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...Legend of Nigger Charley is not much of an improvement. The plot comes more or less out of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, minus three. Charley is a freed slave who rides through the Southwest righting wrongs with the help of three companions. At one point, shortly after dispatching a gang of drunken louts in a saloon set-to, they help a white homesteader fight off the attacks of a band of marauding outlaws. Charley develops a yen for the homesteader's half-breed wife, portrayed by a comely young actress named Tricia O'Neill, who represents...
...might welcome congressional efforts to formulate a peace offer to North Viet Nam. The Church-Case amendment omits a cease-fire as a condition for the withdrawal of American forces, but it does embody Nixon's offer of a total withdrawal in four months after the P.O.W.s are freed. Though Nixon dislikes congressional interference with his prerogatives, some such congressional resolution would increase his bargaining strength with North Viet Nam. It would demonstrate that Congress, the source of so much antiwar sentiment, is behind...
More Rollbacks. The small companies that were liberated account for about one-fourth of U.S. industry's sales and jobs. Some 900 Internal Revenue Service agents will be freed from the job of poring over the books of these firms and shifted to the more productive task of investigating complaints against larger corporations. In all, nearly 2,000 IRS men will be policing the big companies. As Herbert Stein, head of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, put it: "We can watch many more billions of Gross National Product by watching General Motors than by watching...
...high Nixon administration official once explained to me that the people jailed in the tiger cages of Con Son Island belong there because they refuse to salute the flag of President Thieu. Were they to salute, he told me, they would be freed...
...taken place, (a) the price of the stock--management's major concern--is back to normal (the historical evidence makes this quite clear): (b) a few alert investors have enjoyed a windfall by buying the stock at a temporarily reduced price: and (c) the company's management has been freed from the constant pressure that could have been applied by a morally-concerned shareholder...