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...succeed, this country will almost certainly go protectionist." Gerrit Wagner agreed: "We should take back to Europe a message that though the situation is serious, the U.S. has the best intentions. However, if it is confronted with a choice between a national and an international solution, it will opt for the national...
Jessica (Zohra Lampert) has just been released from a mental institution. She and her husband Duncan (Barton Heyman) opt out of the New York scene for a creaky Connecticut retreat, and find that they have acquired not only the house but its tenants of yesteryear. Duncan initially dismisses the weird noises and the hostility of the townfolk, every man jack of them with a scar on his neck. And Jessica begins to wonder if it isn't all in her mind. That overheated young hippie Emily (Mariclare Costello) who was living in the house, for instance. Surely...
...words for the procedure. They do not even mind that the ceremony takes almost a minute-a full 30 seconds longer than the superefficient Juarez procedure. Said one veteran of Juarez: "It was like a cattle run there; here in Santo Domingo it's got class." Those who opt for the Caribbean have one final decision to make: whether to get divorced in French (Haiti) or in Spanish (Dominican Republic...
...sadism" of pro football [May 24], but the overwhelming evidence seems to indicate that the team that is emotionally "up" for the game is the one that wins, not the one whose players' identity crises have been solved and whose civil rights have been observed. Those who opt for a career in professional sports must face the hard fact that their highly inflated salaries are paid for by the people who want to see and back a winner, not a player who (in Scott's words) feels that "the final score should be almost incidental...
...signs had long been there. By the fall of 1969, it had become clear to critical observers that the new Administration was not going to opt for immediate extrication; the removal of ground troops was slow and inconclusive, and the rest of the war machinery continued to pound away at all of Indochina. President Nixon's November 1969 nationwide address-the Vietnamization speech, largely of Kissinger's design-was an attempt to buy time for the war by neutralizing domestic opposition, time which would be spent to practice strategy and tactics against the NLF and Hanoi. As one former White...