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Jango Goulart proved their main point. All 73 of the retired soldiers were put under ten days' military arrest...
...plate, how ships are built. The picture won an Oscar two years ago. Harris also does shorter, impressionistic pieces. In Highway, he zips up, down, and under Manhattan's West Side Highway by night and day, sketching the rhythm of the roadway until it fairly comes alive. "My main preoccupation in film is with rhythm, and then color," he says. As if to prove it, he will use his $10,000 to make a film on the dance...
Lurking Fear. The civic-action program to date has cost a half-million piasters ($70,000), big money by Vietnamese standards. But Phumy is far from secure. In the sun-baked flats and clumps of jungle outside the main towns, the Viet Cong still control 70% of the province. In Phumy and elsewhere, the Reds have their agents. Soldiers with fixed bayonets guard the new water wells to keep them from being poisoned. For all their appreciation, Phumy's citizens remain understandably timorous; they remember what the Viet Cong warned on pulling out: that "when we return" villagers would...
...city-room pecking order at most big dailies, the real estate editor ranks somewhat below the writer who covers high school sports; his main function is to supply a few columns of editorial top-dressing for the real estate ads. Albert Jedlicka of the Chicago. Daily News is a glittering exception. With a yearlong, still-continuing series of stories in the tradition of the hard-digging reporter-detective, Jedlicka has played a major role in exposing a mortgage-financing scandal that has rocked the Chicago real estate and building industries (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...division of Judaism into Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities dates back to the Middle Ages, when Spain and Germany were the main centers of Jewish culture. The Jews in Spain were known as the Sephardim (Spanish in Hebrew) and the German Jews were called the Ashkenazim (German in Hebrew). The differences between the two are mostly in custom and culture. For example, during Passover, the Ashkenazim are forbidden to eat rice and beans, while the Sephardim may eat both...