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...Patton, with George C. Scott, Friday and Saturday...
...actually of a very general nature: It is an instance of opposition between a will for freedom and a force of mindless suppression. On April 21, 1967, Greece was seized by a military junta. In the first hours of the morning, Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos maneuvered tanks--Sherman and Patton M-47's, supplied to NATO countries by the United States--into the streets of Athens. The same night, Colonel John Ladas was commanding an operation called "Arrests of Dangerous Elements;" over 10,000 Athenians were awakened and transported by trucks to "reception centers" where the uncharged captives were beaten...
First choice for an adapter was Truman Capote, but Paramount found his treatment "unacceptable." Godfather Director and Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter (for Patton) Francis Ford Coppola was brought in, and he turned in the script in three weeks...
PERHAPS THE MOST celebrated of all these women was Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer for Life magazine who died in 1971. She was on assignment in Russia after the Revolution, at Buchenwald when General Patton liberated it, and nearby when Gandhi was assasinated. Unlike almost every other woman photographer, she does not focus primarily on people. A whole series depicts powerful, moving machines. Her portraits all seem calculated to swallow you with merciless eyes that don't see and make you shudder in pain . . . "The living dead of Buchenwald;" "Gold miners, Nos. 1139 & 5122, Johannesburg...
...Pearson-as he proudly notes-who first reported such things as General Patton's notorious slapping incident, Richard Nixon's questionable finances (in 1957), and the ruthless tactics of the House Un-American Activities Committee. As, in Pearson's words, "a voice for the voiceless," the column at its best was a kind of national ombudsman, most notably during World War II, when it exposed instances of brass-hat bungling...