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Doctors and therapists in Hanoi's Bach Mai Hospital were working, also unaware of the air defense crews' feverish activity. One of the hospital's most important functions was to teach people deafened by bomb concussions to hear and speak again; staff members were leading patients in complex relearning exercises...
ABRUPTLY, air raid sirens wailed through the dusk. Orderlies trundled Bach Mai's patients into underground shelters, and the bicyclers, strollers and loungers retraced familiar steps to their assigned havens. Missile batteries in the city's outskirts rotated into position, and anti-aircraft crews within the city donned helmets and waited patiently. Some riflemen peered skyward, but their efforts were futile: unlike smaller fighter-bombers, B-52's fly too high to be seen by the naked eye. Most of the people of Hanoi crouched in their shelters; they huddled in the dark and waited...
American construction crews continued repairing bridges and roads in North Vietnam. Premier Pham Van Dong spoke today at a brief ceremony marking the completion of the rebuilt Bach Mai Hospital. The joint American Vietnamese construction crew heard Premier Dong say, "The bonds of friendship between the people of Vietnam and the people of America--never severed even during the darkest hours of the past war--are strengthened once again." After the ceremony, the construction workers retired for a game of baseball. "They're great people, but they still can't hit a curve ball as good as a guy from...
Directed by MILOŠ FORMAN, KON ICHIKAWA, CLAUDE LELOUCH, JURI OZEROV, ARTHUR PENN, MICHAEL PFLEGHAR, JOHN SCHLESINGER, MAI ZETTERLING
...most abused device is ironic crosscutting. Mai Zetterling has her somber Swedish fun jumping from overmuscled weight lifters to shots of mass-food preparation in the Olympic Village. But since these athletes are not overweight, considering their specialty, her juxtaposition of images is superficial and the idea behind it banal...