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Lately, since CRIMSON reviewers have decided it is nicer to be loved than feared, the old enemy-encampment aura has disappeared from the place, and a certain familiar felicity in power exists between the paper and the world of drama...
Between the Horns. At those prices, hunting behind the Iron Curtain demands a certain selfdiscipline. In Yugoslavia, it costs $500 just to wound a bear, while a clean miss is priced at $200. Hungarians and Rumanians are nicer about it-$50 to $100 for flubbing a shot...
...three wistful misfits will not stay put as creatures of fiction. They keep popping in and out of it, sharing their secrets with the camera, affecting musical comedy poses, cracking movie "in" jokes, letting off steam, then back again to play the youthful games that seem so much nicer in the movies-all set to background music that rattles along in cheerful parody of several dozen of the earnest scores for vintage Hollywood spectaculars...
Stubbed Toes. If the American works for raises and promotion, the European works for his vacation, and he wants it in August. It has done no good to point out that Nice is nicer in July, with more sun and less rain than in August, or that Spanish beaches are pleasanter in June and September than in midsummer. No one listens. Of France's 8,000,000 autos, 4,000,000 were on the road last week-filled with potato salad, crying children, accordion maps and cursing drivers. Seven million campers pitched their tents on 8,400 acres...
Prosperity, especially if it really exists, is a splendid theme for an incumbent President to stress in his campaign for reelection. But how much nicer if he can also run against poverty, even if it's found only in pockets...