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Just ahead, a couple of Honda drivers were stopped, an ARVN unit was wearily piling out of its A.P.C.s and the road was devoid of traffic. "Beaucoup V.C., beaucoup V.C.," said one ARVN soldier, pointing down the road. Just then ARVN artillery behind us opened up. The 155-mm. howitzer shells descended over our heads with the sound of ripping cloth, landing just off the road at the edge of a tree line. Then from the distance we saw a single Jeep hurrying toward us, veering crazily from side to side. It screeched to a stop, and the driver...
...agency decided to switch to another Kodak film that is somewhat slower (ASA rating of only 64 v. 160 for the earlier film), but has significantly less grain and better color reproduction. The gamble worked. The record 3,800 frames that were shot by the astronauts with their 70-mm. Hasselblads contained hardly a flawed exposure. What is more, even after being exposed to the vacuum of the moon, only a few of the 165 to 170 frames in each film pack were damaged; there were barely visible hairline cracks in their thin chemical emulsion...
...into the amuck world of M. Hulot, upon whose heron head rain down all manner of comic disasters. Mr. Hulot' s Holiday (1953), the first, still seems the best, the most genuinely poignant and inventively funny. Further installments - Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967), photo graphed in 70 mm. and yet to be released in the U.S. - have grown progressively more precious. Often the complexity of a Tati gag outweighs the punch line. In Traffic, it overwhelms it. Ingenuity, not wit, is the real point of the exercise, and laughter is strangled by mechanics...
...people (see map). This has been achieved not by the feckless Pathet Lao but by the North Vietnamese, who have at least 65,000 soldiers in Laos-more proportionally than they have in South Viet Nam. Furnished with tanks, long-range Soviet-made 130-mm, guns and what Western observers describe as "some of the finest and most highly motivated infantry in the world" (see story, following page), Hanoi's forces in Laos are more than a match for the 80,000 Royal Laotian Army troops, Thai mercenaries and CIA-supported Meo tribesmen who oppose them...
...Maria, obsessive and tormented, eludes her. Less introverted than preoccupied, Tuesday seems as lost as Maria herself, although the only good moment in the film is hers. "See the pyramids all wet with rain / Cross the ocean in a silver plane" Maria croons, stoned crazy in an old 16-mm. verité documentary of Carter's, and in those few seconds Weld touches some of Maria's torment and vulnerability. Perkins has a little more success in the role of the producer, which is less complex and demanding. Both he and Weld struggle to bring some depth...