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...strategy. Pentagon analysts no longer doubt the NVA'S ability to achieve total military victory within a few months, if not sooner. In the past month, General Van Tien Dung, the NVA'S Chief of Staff and a disciple of the legendary Vo Nguyen Giap (mastermind of the Viet Minn's 1954 victory at Dien Bien Phu and of the 1968 Tet offensive), has demonstrated an impressive ability to coordinate infantry, artillery and armor. Indeed, the Communist Southern headquarters (COSVN) is now describing 1975-rather than 1976, as previously declared-as the "Year of Final Victory...
Cliff Gorman, as an Israeli intelligence officer, is what he is: a good comic actor in desperate need of a gag. Richard Attenborough, as the cracked mastermind of the plot, gamely gives more of himself than his small role calls for or can sustain. John V. Lindsay plays a U.S. Senator, the father of one of the kidnaped girls, pretty much as he played being mayor of New York City - like a B-picture leading man. At that, he is not the worst thing about this flaccid, fatuous film, though with such wealth to choose from, it is hard...
...this mass of undercurrents. Instead they have supplied a lot of witty, if often extraneous numbers, which in turn serve as vehicles for law school puns rather than conveyors for much-needed expositions. Perhaps if the writers had let the heroine of the play explain how she was the mastermind behind all the plotting then Shake A Legacy would have held together. But they didn't. And she didn't. And we are left with a very funny production that goes nowhere...
...unhappy marriage, and divorce seemed the only way out for Clifford and Edith Irving, mastermind and accomplice respectively of the phony Howard Hughes biography caper. But when they emerged from prison after being separated for nearly two years, they were understandably reluctant to get involved in yet another legal process. Last month Clifford, 44, returned to Ibiza, the Mediterranean island where he used to live, to spend Christmas with his wife and their two sons, Nedsky, 6, and Barney, 4. Irving was due back in Manhattan last week, where he is still trying to sell his phony Hughes book...
...reporter only half facetiously: "Could you hear the prison doors clanking shut?" Nonetheless, the defense lawyer, John J. Wilson, was no less impassioned in attacking the Government's chief witnesses, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John Dean. Wilson described Magruder as a "professional liar" and Dean as a "mastermind of chicanery, of monkey business, of flouting the law, of having no conscience." The defense attorney dismissed the White House tapes as having recorded nothing worse than the sort of talk that takes place in any family at times of "trouble ... or tragedy." Said he: "I'm telling you about...