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What is the fuss all about? Something-and nothing. In fundamental intention, La Dolce Vita is an attempted apocalypse, a vast (3 hrs.) evocation of the Second Coming of Christ. But for those who do not care to be edified by spiritual symbolism, Director Federico (La Strada) Fellini has supplied plenty of earthy realism by clothing his allegory in the robes of a modern Roman saturnalia, stained by spiritual depravity and sexual excess...
After visiting the governor with a city council delegation, enquiring about the Inner Belt, McNamara threw down his personal gauntlet: "If you think the fuss over the toll road led by Mayor Gibbs of Newton is creating a stir, it is but a lawn party compared to what will happen in Cambridge if a Belt highway on one of the routes now proposed is announced...
Meanwhile, with no fuss whatsoever, President Kennedy asked some 40 career ambassadors to remain at their present posts. Among them: Roy Rubottom, Argentina; H. Freeman Matthews, Austria; John Moors Cabot, Brazil; Edward Page Jr., Bulgaria; William C. Trimble, Cambodia; Christian M. Ravndal, Czechoslovakia; Robert McClintock, Lebanon...
...limber, goateed adventurer who in a few dizzy years had skyrocketed from postal clerk to world figure, Tshombe had only a terse epitaph: "The fuss over this evil man will soon die down. The people have no memories here. C'est fini...
...attention-not only juvenile delinquency but also labor racketeering (with particular reference to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa). He also wants a good, hard look at the federal regulatory agencies, and feels that Bobby would make an able crime-busting investigator. But both brothers knew that there would be a fuss; Jack Kennedy argued that it would blow over. In private conversations he indicated a willingness to take the risk. "I'm going to have this job for four years," he said. "I want to do the best I know how. What counts is results...