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...voice was cracked and harsh, his eyes as hollow as his campaign coffers. Yet even as New Yorkers streamed to the polls, John Vliet Lindsay loped urgently from block to block, borough to borough, croaking a threnody that had become as familiar and unique to the streets of New York as the carp of cab drivers or the yawp of fire trucks...
...Disgust. The new act is undoubtedly harsh, probably harsher than Castello Branco, a man dedicated to constitutional democracy, would have liked to see. Yet it is what the military linha dura, or hardline, officers demanded. These are the soldiers who led the March 1964 coup against Leftist Joao Goulart in disgust at the corruption, demagoguery, and opportunistic politics that have prevailed in Brazil for years. Under Castello Branco, the Communists have been wiped out but not all the grafters have-and this has been a constant irritation to the military...
...battle scenes. This brutal,-unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp is made of stronger stuff. While retaining the scenario form of James Clavell's 1962 novel, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (Seance on a Wet Afternoon) often goes Clavell one better in the harsh words and harsher images that synthesize the horrors of Changi, an isolated compound near Singapore where 10,000 inmates struggle against starvation, disease and despair...
...statement came in sharp contrast to recent harsh criticism by many high public officials of student demonstrations...
...Harsh words from the man who tailored U.S. strategic air power in the cold war, but it was not hard to understand his pique. Last week, with the total of U.S. sorties over the North rising to 16,000 since February, Hanoi seemed no closer to negotiation than ever. Moreover, four more American planes were shot down by North Viet Nam's sharp-eyed gunners, raising to 121 the number of U.S. aircraft lost so far (60 for the Navy, 61 for the Air Force). The loss rate-.75% per sortie -is still higher than World...