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...Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and White House Aide Peter Flanigan. By a quirk of fate, the meeting took place on May 26, the day that stock prices plunged to the year's low so far. Saunders could hardly have picked a more opportune moment to ask for a handout. "The Penn Central is in a state of financial crisis," he said. "Two hundred million dollars of its commercial paper has recently matured or will mature in the next few months, and in the present circumstances of the company the paper cannot be refunded. The Penn Central Rail Road will...
That's the Times story about the My Lai massacre. Like most of the news in American papers about the war, it is written from an Army press handout, which means it's a lie. But even if it had said "128 massacred." how could you understand that at breakfast? How hard is it to understand the fact that the U. S. sent 217 separate GIs-mostly black-to their own separate deaths a couple weeks ago. How many stories like the one in the Times have you read in the last year...
...very obvious that Mr. Friedman has never been on relief. My mother-in-law has been. Just ask her whether she would prefer to receive an $80-a-month handout on relief, with all its degradations and red tape, or the same amount in Social Security insurance-for which she and her employers had paid the premiums over many years. In fact, just ask anybody who receives Social Security. Very few of them would state that Mr. Friedman wants to help the poor...
...word of Buñuel's enlarging reputation reached Generalissimo Franco, who invited Buñuel back to the old country to make a film, all expenses paid. Biting the handout that fed him, Buñuel created Viridiana, a movie with the inexorable rhythm of a time bomb. Vatican and Franco partisans needed only one look at the scene in which a nun is raped by a beggar; Viridiana was swiftly disowned...
...sounding like a doddering idiot. If The Front Page has a certain cornball, period flavor, it simply seems to add relish to a high-spirited and persistently amusing evening. The Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s is the liveliest public relations handout ever issued on the newspaper game. It makes a newspaperman seem like a combination of knight, sleuth, adventurer and liquored-up, hard-bitten prince of the realm - the Fourth Estate seen in the guise of the First Estate...