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...typical militia outpost is Tanlong, some 20 miles southeast of Saigon. At night the capital's lights loom on the horizon, but none of the 14 men on duty can afford to look at them: the Viet Cong snipe constantly. The Tanlong outpost consists of six foxholes, all half-full of slimy water. A mortar pit, with its precious weapon covered carefully in canvas, stands near by, flanked by four ancient Vietnamese graves whose massive headstones provide the outpost's only cover...
...engage in it. For years, the economic miracle represented a kind of occupational therapy, a materialist escape; while it remains the dominant fact in Germany, more and more people no longer find it enough. Germans are uneasy about their place in the world, impatient with the obstacles that loom on all sides, resentful of the contradictions in which they are forced to live...
European governments loom especially large in labor negotiations. Because the French government employs 25% of the country's labor force and the Italian government 12%, they wield a tremendous influence on wage policies. Under the complicated French labor code, special labor courts handle all grievances, and each plant is required to have an employee committee sitting as advisers to management. Called the Comité d'Entreprise, it can be anything from a great help to a hair shirt, meets at least monthly with plant managers and can have the company's books audited at any time...
...pupils, who come from seven nearby farm families. She teaches them on six grade levels, from first to eighth (she has no sixth and seventh graders). The 68-year-old school is surrounded by corn and barley fields; 48 silos filled with Government-owned surplus corn loom near...
Director Delbert Mann, who filmed Marty ten years ago, has enlisted many gifted people to keep Dear Heart thudding along. Thud it does, because it lacks the tough, painful insights that made Marty's small world loom large. Actress Page, who can make a wallflower look like a man-eating plant, strives to read depth and pathos into a role that cracks under the strain, for Scenarist Tad Mosel's out-of-towners can only be taken lightly. They are stereotypes swathed in homespun, plain folks played for hicks...