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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson fans will keep close tabs on the team statistics, but Hewlett is bound to be their main interest. Several runners appear to have a shot at grabbing first place, including Georgetown's Joe Lynch, indoor two-mile IC4A track champion last winter and runner-up to Villanova's Vic Zwolak in the IC4A three-mile last spring...
Inevitably they strike Western visitors as robotlike. In Canton's main park 3,000 Communist youth at a signal begin wildly cheering a Western businessman, and at another signal, just as obediently, they stop. People seem terrified to accept even the smallest gift from foreigners, evidently for fear of being tabbed as spies. Visiting coeducational Sian University, a French Deputy asks a question natural to any Frenchman: "Does the proximity of 5,000 boys and 2,000 girls pose any problems?" There are puzzled stares, and the rector replies: "What sort of problems?" The French visitor: "Sexual problems...
Delicate Inquiries. Suddenly Saigon's press blossomed with warnings that "in critical times religion cannot let the military and the politicians have a free hand in national affairs," and from the main pagoda in HuÉ, Buddhist priests began warning their followers that Buddhism faced "new threats," called on loyal Buddhists to defend the faith "against its enemies." Apart from the pressure on Huong to reshuffle his Cabinet to include direct Buddhist representation, other political factions were raising their voices. Disregarding a warning by Huong against public demonstrations, a noisy rally of the National Student Union concluded with...
...major offensive. Along the Uganda border, a government column shook the rebel hold on the northeastern Congo by recapturing the towns of Beni and Lubero. In the west, another force rolled unopposed from Boende all the way to Ikela, a vital road junction 185 miles from Stanleyville. But the main force came from the south. There, led by a Belgian colonel and 250 mercenaries, the 2,000-man 5th Mechanized Brigade clanked out of its staging area at Kongolo one morning, rumbled 250 miles in four days, conquered the rebel communications center at Kindu almost without firing a shot...
...cynical conclusion Chayefsky takes some of them firmly in hand. He writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee. Naval officer proudly: "He was the first dead man on Omaha Beach!" Civilian innocently: "Was there a contest?" But Chayefsky dissipates the main force of his satire by chasing the main chance for commercial success...