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...this film is just plain fun. Ernst Lubitsch, the man who made it, was known for the "Lubitsch touch," an adeptness at light comedy coupled with extraordinary photographic technique. His films impress one as distinctly modern, certainly not as museum pieces...
...picture of the beheaded man was very gruesome and sickening-however, I cannot understand why people object to these factual photographs. Such pictures should be plastered across the front pages of every newspaper across the United States in order to impress upon citizens the brutality and futility of wars...
...Shocking Doctrine." All these emanations failed to impress dissenting Justice Stewart, who could find no constitutional infringements whatever in the law. In what conceivable way, asked he, did Connecticut's birth-control law violate the Third Amendment ban against quartering soldiers in private homes? How could a federal court use the Ninth Amendment to take away rights assigned to the people's elected state representatives? "We are not asked in this case to say whether we think this law is unwise, or even asinine," said Stewart. "We are asked to hold that it violates the United States Constitution...
...Bourget Airport, where Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis in 1927. It was the 26th biennial Paris Air Show, the world's biggest, and the heat was caused by the jockeying to win competitive honors. Nearly everyone who counts in world aviation was there, partly to impress potential customers and partly to size up rivals and their hardware. Serious buyers from more than 100 nations and squadrons of national officials, including 58 junketing U.S. Senators and Congressmen, came to look over the 250 types of planes and other aerospace products displayed by a record 448 exhibitors from...
...which has already begun. By 1975 the program should have altered 25 per cent of the city's 31 square miles and have affected 50 per cent of its 700,000 population. The plan's comprehensive scope, its thoughtfulness, and its bold promises of progress are all calculated to impress. But the intent seems wrong. The spirit behind it appears more concerned with maximizing business opportunity than with creating a humane, liveable city for the poor as well as the rich...