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Long before the attack was over, CINCPAC Admiral Sharp was routed out of bed (about 4 a.m., Hawaii time) by a duty officer. He hurried to the windowless war room on the third deck of his hilltop headquarters overlooking the white sands of the Oahu coast. He slipped into his green leather chair at the center of a U-shaped table, opposite a wall on which illuminated status reports could be flashed, and picked up a dialless gold telephone at his left. On the Stateside end of the circuit was Robert McNamara. Sharp seldom left that room during the next...
...Negroes as if in aspiration to belong to a higher-echelon minority. They lie around in their grimy pads listening to westerns on TV with lines like "reckon that'll teach them moonfaced Indians to have more respect for a white man." Or they drive to a rubbly hilltop and hold war dances with jugs of wine, the galactic lights of the city spread below...
...early stars died or moved away; their estates were sold or razed, divided and subdivided into expensive housing developments. Now the landscape looks like a Monopoly board toward the end of a hot game. Half a dozen houses now share the hilltop where Charlie Chaplin's castle and tennis court once stood in lonely splendor. The city is home to a new sort of populace-an ever-thrusting band of upper-middle-classmen, walking bank accounts without names who are determined to live up to the legacy of glamour. They are concerned not with style but with status...
...laws," Kurosawa says. Japanese law makes kidnaping a popular crime, since a conviction brings a sentence of only one to ten years if the victim is returned unharmed. But the film is no mere polemic. The story begins with a business conclave in a luxurious home perched on a hilltop high above the smoking slums of Yokohama. While a shoe company executive named Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) struggles with his unprincipled colleagues in a last-ditch fight for control of the firm, a kidnaper strikes. Intending to seize Gondo's young son, he nabs the chauffeur...
Otherwise the old fighter's birthday seemed serene. At his hilltop residence outside Taipei, Chiang spent the day quietly with his family and followed Chinese custom by eating the traditional "longevity noodles." The most elaborate birthday gift came from a group of wealthy Chinese living in Thailand: $750,000 for a basketball stadium in Taipei. In island-wide celebrations, a choral group of 10,000 soldiers sang birthday songs, toasts were proposed for Chiang's health at thousands of dinners, and a spruce detachment of Nationalist Chinese "WAVES" paraded smartly. Chiang still clings to an old hope. Spotting...