Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long-Standing Pleas. Short's ban on police participation in the shotgun squads forced the detective agency to hire retired cops, and the private security force that started at 70 now numbers fewer than 50 men. Nonetheless, the vigilantes have already earned their keep. Their presence has forced the city government to reconsider long-standing pleas to increase the size of the regular police force. And in the first three weeks after the guards had been hired, the three dry-cleaning chains suffered not a single robbery...
...Sinai campaign. It could hold its own against almost any array of Arab armies, provided that the Arabs did not unite into a single force. What alarms Israel this time is the way in which the Arabs, though continuing to fight and squabble among themselves, have nonetheless joined firm ranks against Israel. Despite its superior military prowess, Israel might be hard pressed indeed to protect itself against any coordinated and sustained Arab attack...
...nation last week. "That is not a sign of weakness. It is not difficult for the situation to deteriorate into war, but we have to be strong enough to try all other means. We have to do the utmost to avoid bloodshed on either side of the border." Nonetheless, pressured by politicians and anxious that Israel should be ready if diplomacy fails and open war does come, Eshkol last week relinquished the post of Defense Minister that he had kept for himself and turned it over to General Moshe Dayan, 52, the dashing, one-eyed hero of the Sinai campaign...
Caine and Jane Fonda give the best performances, and it is the Caine character on which the movie's best scenes rest. Preminger has wisely avoided strong accents, with the result that an actor who has previously played thick-tongued Cockneys is nonetheless thoroughly convincing as a Southerner. Caine's line-readings are consistently fine: he even manages to bring over such dialogue as 'Honey, I love you, I need you, I can't live without...
...swinging student quarter, or perhaps the hothouse glitter of West Berlin, might offer the most congenial milieu for artists. Hardly anyone would think of busy Düsseldorf, a conglomeration of shimmering steel-and-glass office buildings on the Rhine that epitomizes the commercial hubbub of the Wirtschaftswunder. Nonetheless, the lion's share of West Germany's most adventurous artists today find in Düsseldorf just the setting they need. Says Munich's grand old man of art, onetime Neue Pinakotek Director Dr. Eberhard Hanfstaengl, 81: "Düsseldorf...