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...Down the hall from the operations center is a room papered with huge maps. On one set, the war in Viet Nam is plotted with up-to-the-hour reports of combat action and other trouble spots. Another chart may track the course of a Soviet ship bound from Odessa to Cuba-along with U.S. surveillance forces in the area...
...that yield little information. They prefer not to use their tapped telephones for interviews. And they would be better advised to write a letter to anyone they want to see. They may not leave Moscow without permission. After trying various ploys, one reporter explained that he wanted to visit Odessa to see the sunrise. In due course, the reply came back: "The sunrise in Odessa is just like the sunrise in Moscow...
Some of the millionaires, of course, like to indulge expensive tastes. Walter Davis, 42, of Odessa, Texas, saw a need for a trucking business to haul oil from out-of-the-way wells to central pipelines, borrowed $5,000 and built a business that has earned him at least $7,000,000; now he lives in a $700,000 house and enjoys gambling $100,000 a weekend on college football games. Even those who are less flamboyant like to live well: John Diebold has a 16th century living room that was transported stick by stick from Sussex, England; Pittsburgh Theater...
They are awed by his domestic achievements. An Odessa, Texas, housewife says, "What he's done in Congress is miraculous." A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, advertising man says, "I don't care if he does have to tickle some Congressman's toes to get it done-he's quite a man." A Phoenix, Ariz., piano teacher says, "He's got things done that people have needed for years and years...
...plot.) The dramatic suspense suffers from his visual elaborations. Dialogue labels characters "good" or "bad" rather than engaging our interest in them. Furthermore, montage expands the time span of crucial events instead of condensing it. Eisenstein relies on the "rhythm" of the cutting and the motion within the Odessa Steppes scene to keep things exciting; but the silent tumult, the stationary camera, and the formality of description strain a modern audience's attention...