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...Monstrous Thing." In turn, the delegates of the other five warned of the consequences of a rupture, but France's Couve de Murville was adamant. Walter Hallstein. chairman of the Common Market Commission, tried to change the wording of the proposal to make it more acceptable to the French. He failed. There was nothing to do but summon Heath to hear the final verdict. Each head of delegation read a prepared statement. Belgium's Spaak called the rupture "a monstrous thing.'' Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns was equally bitter, while Germany's Schroder pointedly told...
...GENERAL MOTORS' FUTURAMA, designed by Albert Kahn Associates, has a façade looming over the entrance like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney...
...Congress. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen called it "incredible," and fellow Republicans in the Senate and House denounced it as "radical," "ridiculous," "morally wrong," and "straight from a dreamland of fiscal fantasy." Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the budget was "monstrous," predicted that his committee would "find places to cut it substantially." Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright said the budget "seems extraordinarily high." And New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson pronounced the budget "discouraging...
...must be said that since the time of Trotskyism no other opportunist trend has ever resorted to such a monstrous method, which completely distorts truth. It hides its capitulatory essence behind "ultrarevolutionary" slogans, playing on the feelings of the masses. It would be extremely harmful to try to fit revolutionary processes in this extremely varied world into ready molds, as the dogmatists are trying to do. Far from advancing the cause of world revolution, they are throttling...
Last Year at Marienbad. The French New Wave, which has saltily subsided, nevertheless flung up the intellectual sensation of the year, a tour de force of cubistic cinema in which Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) dismantles reality and reassembles it in a monstrous maze whose exit is its entrance...