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...suffers a series of riots, British Intelligence decides to send an investigator, boozy, erratic Captain Connor (Brian Keith). Between drinks, the captain interprets the unrest as a diversionary tactic. There must be something deeper underfoot, he decides -something like a tunnel. From that moment, The McKenzie Break becomes a lethal contest of Irish hound and German hares led by the glittering Übermensch, Kapitan Schluetter (Helmut Griem...
ABSENCE of money may be killing the theater, but paradoxically its presence is just as lethal. Dependence on sheerly popular appeal trumped up in out-of-town tryouts destroys more surely than boredom or even mediocrity. Theater disappears in the rush for backers to retrieve their investments. Broadway may now have found the perfect subject matter in its latest major musical, The Rothschilds, but perhaps it will only discover just how dull theater-material lucre can be. The real problem is money-not its absence, but its suffocating presence, its influence in cheapening quality, and ability to beget itself...
...threats of planted bombs. At least 16 police officers have been slain in unprovoked attacks. In San Francisco last week, as some 400 friends, relatives and fellow policemen gathered for the funeral services of a patrolman who was shot to death during a bank robbery, a bomb exploded, hurling lethal nails into the air. Astonishingly, no one was hurt. In racially tense Cairo, Ill., one night last week, as many as 20 rifle-carrying blacks in Army fatigues attacked the police station three times in six hours. Near by, arsonists set two stores ablaze, and when fire equipment failed...
...CFIA and the students who assault it have in common this disregard for the sovereignty of national boundaries, with continents no different from campuses. Ideology, free-world ideology or revolutionary, sweeps away the restraints of diplomacy. The delineation of the world into good guys and bad guys was lethal in the Vietnam episode to those diplomats trying to assert themselves over military bureaucrats and national security analysts...
...guess I'm too depressed to be mad," said Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics and member of the CFIA. "How could you have anything but strong feelings when the place where you spend ten hours every day is the site of a purposely placed lethal event...