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...many foreign ministers as he can during the opening weeks of the U.N. General Assembly. But the U.N. has grown so rapidly in recent years that what was once routine diplomacy has now become a kind of diplomatic marathon. By the end of this week, Secretary of State Wil liam Rogers - hoarse of voice and red of eye - will have spent eleven days in New York; in that time, he will have held bilateral discussions with no few er than 66 foreign ministers or their deputies, a heavier schedule than that of any other diplomat...
...cast is singularly strident. As a pompous Middle European intellectual, Kenneth Mars mugs and drools in a manner that Jerry Lewis might find excessive. Madeline Kahn, who plays O'Neal's officious fianceé, rolls over her part like one of Patton's tanks. Liam Dunn is fitfully funny as a demented judge, but he too finally succumbs to the prevailing hysteria...
...Meanwhile, back in Paris, the peace talks were making little headway. Chief U.S. Negotiator David Bruce, who is to be replaced by Career Diplomat Wil liam Porter in August, argued that the seven-point Communist proposal was too vague, and asked for clarification of some of the points. Though no progress was yet evident at the conference table, North Vietnamese diplomats elsewhere dropped hints that they might be willing to tolerate for a number of years an independent if neutral government in South Viet Nam as part of a political settlement. So far, the U.S. is unwilling to sacrifice...
...eventually gives it all up to wed the hardware-store widow, but Monte won't relinquish his ways even for the golden-hearted, dross-tongued whore (Jeanne Moreau) he loves. By the time the film ends, just about everyone has been killed off except Marvin and Director Wil liam Fraker, who might well have been the first target...
That the proper use of open space is to structure the growth around it. Most people would say: True. But in a refreshing, optimistic and constructive book, The Last Landscape (Doubleday; $6.95), Author and Conservationist Wil liam H. Whyte firmly disagrees...