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Philadelphia-born Richard Lester, who became British cinema's one-man new wave with A Hard Day's Night and The Knack, chose San Francisco as the location for Petulia, his first film in the U.S. "It's the most exciting city anywhere on earth," he explained. The excitement, unfortunately, seems to have been too much for him. Petulia is a dazzlement of props and location shots, around which the actors ricochet helplessly through a non-romance between a girl who is some kind of nut and an orthopedic surgeon who seems to be going the same...
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...have occurred in labor disputes since the 1950s. For all its failings, the U.N. has helped to keep most of the world's angry opponents at arm's length, producing a host of skilled conciliators in the process-Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, Canada's Lester Pearson, America's Ellsworth Bunker. Common to such men is a firm belief that conciliatory techniques (negotiation, mediation, arbitration) apply equally well to all disputes, marital as well as martial, between races and generations. It is a faith based not on Utopian dreams but on hard-won experience...
Some constitutional-law experts saw in the decision a new pragmatism, an emphasis on tangible results that can be read as a warning to many Northern de facto segregated schools. In any case, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox understood full well what the court's decision meant for the South. He ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast, and in an official proclamation announced that it had been "another black and tragic Monday, when the United States Supreme Court again ruled in support of the demands of the Communist Party." The decision, he predicted with desperate hyperbole...