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...first he succeeds. He blackmails his wife anonymously. She borrows from him to raise money for the payoff ("It is easy to be generous," he tells the audience, "when you are sending money to yourself"). Later, he smoothly implicates her lover as a blackmailing gigolo. But the methodical husband has touched off a larger explosion than he designed, and the film resolves itself in a series of novel twists, most of which are so awkwardly handled that they seem to come off only in Director Edouard Molinaro's heavy hand...
...Senate reversed its Finance Committee, voted 75-20 to increase the non-service-connected disability pensions of more than 1,100,000 veterans and their widows and orphans. The payoff, long advocated by the American Legion, would amount to $10 billion, spread over 40 years. The House, by voice vote, went along with the Senate, but the chances of the bill escaping a veto were slight...
...payoff has been slight: a scant 480,000 tons of oil last year (compared to Kuwait's 70 million tons). But the promise is enough to give some substance to Charles de Gaulle's dreams of the grandeur of France. For if the Sahara's already proven oil reserves-conservatively estimated at 700 million tons-can be successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will...
Biding Time. No man save De Gaulle himself had done more to change the course of postwar French history than Jacques Soustelle. The payoff was scarcely what Soustelle must have hoped for. "No one else has ever praised me for my role in Algiers," said he last week, "so I am obliged to praise myself...
...television (never to be confused with the state-supervised BBC) celebrated its fifth birthday by repaying the last shilling of the ?550,000 government loan that got the enterprise started. Despite such success, critics carped that a Briton's TV set was no longer his castle. The big payoff, wrote the London Evening Standard, was financed by U.S. shows. "Not only are there too many imported programmes on the home screen, but our homebred programmes are becoming more and more influenced by America...