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Some people ask if we are caught in a blind escalation of force that is pulling us headlong toward a wider war that no one wants. The answer-again-is a simple no. We are using that force-and only that force-that is necessary to stop this aggression. Our numbers have increased in Viet Nam because the aggression of others has increased in Viet Nam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation...
...Iran from the middle ages into modern industrialized society. Having laid the groundwork through extensive land reforms and a massive literacy drive and aided by annual oil royalties worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving, most ambitious development program. From broad, modern boulevards in Teheran to the effusion of makeshift classrooms in the hinterlands, it has already begun to change the life and look of Iran...
...slalom, not the 'giant slalom, is his specialty. Kidd proved next day that he needed no alibis. Crouched low over his skis, he flashed through the 56 gates and zipped across the finish line in 1 min. 49.59 sec. No one came really close -including Killy, who crashed headlong into a gate at 45 m.p.h. and was disqualified...
...Bolt has condensed much of this story through a narrator, Yuri's Bolshevik brother (Alec Guinness). The device seems awkward at times, but the flashbacks spring vividly to life on their own. The couple's first wordless encounter takes place aboard a tramcar in Moscow, and the headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where Lara and her mother's self-seeking lover (Rod Steiger) generate the first sparks of scandal. After the revolution, a train carries Yuri, his wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin...
What ever happened to the Congolese rebels? When the "People's Republic of the Congo" collapsed before advancing government columns in March, its leaders disappeared in headlong flight across the Sudanese border-President Christophe Gbenye in the Rolls-Royce he had expropriated along the way. Most of them ended up in Cairo, where under the friendly eye of Nasser and with money scrounged from Communist embassies, they hoped to plot their triumphant return. It didn't quite work out that way, for soon they were spending most of their time plotting against each other...