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Lyndon Johnson, too, profited from the lesson of the Bay of Pigs. When he and his advisers decided that U.S. intervention was required in the Dominican Republic in 1965, he used no halfway measures. The U.S. landed in force, the job was done with dispatch, and the critics who carped about "gunboat diplomacy" were simply ignored...
...temporary secular jobs while they undergo up to 90 days of pastoral counseling provided by ministers with lengthy parish experience. Those in need of psychiatric care will be referred to hospitals and clinics. Sterling expects that at least a third of his clients will use PARDON as a "halfway house" to ease their transition to secular life-but the rest, he hopes, may be able to return to the ministry with a renewed sense of zeal...
Murky Waters. Of the only two new plays with any serious intellectual content to have opened in the West End this season, one-Peter Ustinov's disappointing Halfway Up the Tree-closed in New York after only 72 performances. The other, Wise Child, has already closed in London, despite a strong cast headed by Sir Alec Guinness. A kinky, comic and slightly sinister play by Simon Gray, Wise Child presented Guinness as a criminal on the lam, disguised as a woman. He is being blackmailed by a weirdo youth who carries out the pretense of being...
...plan ran afoul of Surveyor 7's first glitch. After firing a small explosive charge to free the box, the scientists began lowering it on a nylon cord. Halfway down, the box stuck. Using the spacecraft's TV camera to hunt for the source of the trouble and working with duplicate models, JPL scientists and engineers from JPL and Hughes Aircraft, designer of the moon robot, struggled to set it free. Twice they nudged it with the digger arm. No luck. All it did was swing a bit. Then they tried again, using the arm to steady...
...Nichols and his two writers can't handle the ambitious and complicated issues they raise, and sideswipe their own construct at the halfway mark. The Graduate rapidly degenerates into frenetic melodramatics, ending in the all-too-frequent last minute chase, a triumph of love-over-everything guaranteed to warm even the hearts of a Brattle Theatre audience during the Bogart festival. Safe in the back of a bus from the irate witnesses to their elopement, Benjamin and Elaine stop grinning and stare ahead, each considering for the first time the seriousness of their act and the problems ahead; Nichols' muting...