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...North Viet Nam's Red Boss, Ho Chi Minh. The Front's "capital" is believed to be the Viet Cong's military GHQ, which is situated deep in the jungle 75 miles northwest of Saigon, conveniently close to the Cambodian frontier, and protected by a maze of fortifications plus 1,000 elite troops. From there, a disciplined apparatus extends through provincial and district levels, down to the smallest village where the Reds roam...
...years ago Kubrick, 35, got the rights to Peter George's 1958 novel Red Alert, then enlisted George and Co-Scenarist Terry Southern to help transmogrify that straightforward suspense yarn. By heightening the already striking surreality of mere humans blundering through a maze of buzzers, lighted dials, threat boards, hot lines and early warning systems toward world holocaust, Kubrick shot for a "nightmare comedy" and made...
Almost all such work reflects the complexity of modern society-the problems of big business, of big unions, of big government, with its high taxes and its maze of regulations. Lawyers must make sure not only that a contract is foolproof and foulproof, but also that the deal in question clears with the federal regulatory agencies, the Justice Department and the Treasury...
Efficiency v. Elegance. To keep pace with a London-based staff that grew from 75 to 2,262 in its 96 years, the Foreign Office desperately divided and subdivided its ornate acreage. Today it is a dim maze of minute, plywood cubbyholes linked by mosaic-floored corridors and a warren of back stairs. Many of the garrets have no windows, or only a piece of one, and most of the windows cannot be opened anyway. Even the mouse-ridden attics have been carved into typists' collectives and digs for bachelor-duty officers...
...unbending patriarch of Baltimore, and acutely conscious of the dignity and the responsibilities of venerable old age. Like a wise old uncle exercising his seniority, it tells Baltimoreans what to do, and Baltimoreans apparently listen. Faced with a perplexing maze of 20 municipal bond issues in a 1962 election, most voters clipped a Sun editorial, took it to the polls, and followed the paper's recommendations to the letter. The Sun demands a high order of intelligence from its readers. Stories are written not to entertain but to inform; text is never displaced for purely cosmetic considerations...