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...down with him. Barrett is taken back by Tony who desperately needs him. The reversal is made explicit; Tony waits on him, cringes from him, plays childish games with him. But Tony's demise is no longer very interesting, and so we question Barrett's motives. Questioning, however, is fruitless. Is Barrett a homosexual? Does he want Tony's money? Why does he find pleasure in Tony's destruction? There are no answers in the film's detail...
Since this is certain to be a drawn-out and perhaps fruitless affair, Illinois Senator Paul Douglas last week pointedly praised a short cut to fairer fares. Fortnight ago two U.S. lines - Lykes Bros, and Bloomfield - quit an Atlantic conference in order to set their own lower outbound rates, and last week some of their European competitors were forced to pull out to match the new rates. Douglas would like the Mar itime Administration to consider with holding subsidies from any American lines that fail to do Lykeswise...
...because it is there. "There is no use denying that General De Gaulle has upset United States and Western policies," said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "But he has also, if brutally, moved certain situations off dead center and made progress possible." To the Los Angeles Times, it was "fruitless to argue with an accomplished fact." Instead, the Times wondered what nation would next send an ambassador to Peking, and guessed Japan. Cleveland's Plain Dealer saw no point in "forever pretending that Chiang Kai-shek will some day return to the mainland. The United States is trying...
Last night, after another fruitless day of searching, hopes for the safety of the lost climbers were rapidly dwindling...
...instead attempted to mediate the dispute. In the latter role it failed, and in its subsequent report the board followed the lines set up by the Presidential Commission. Once again management agreed to negotiate within the bounds of the report, but labor again refused. After a period of fruitless negotiations another strike was threatened. The matter was finally sent to Congress which established an arbitration board composed of representatives from both labor and management and three impartial members, including James J. Healy, professor of Industrial Relations...