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...Victor Charlie in full retreat and the good guys in control. Even Janssen is flapping his right wing and impugning his liberal-minded employers: "If I say what I feel, I may be out of a job." Among other dubious distinctions, Green Berets wins this year's Yellow Peril award for a line spoken by a sly South Vietnamese general who spots Wayne eying a willowy Oriental star (Irene Tsu). "Besides being one of our top models," he says, "she could be most helpful to our government...
...home, he had only a shrug for death. He made a point of declining police protection when it was offered?as it was last week in Los Angeles?and his unofficial bodyguard went unarmed. To the crowds whose raucous adulation drew him endlessly to the brink of physical peril, he seemed to offer a choice: Raise me up with your voices and votes, or trample me with your strength...
Unless the U.S. can offset this prospective shortfall, it will lead to a rise in the dollar-weakening balance of payments deficit and renewed peril for the free world's monetary and trade system. Chances of improvement seem slim. Congress has shelved the President's proposals to curb tourist spending abroad; rising costs of the Viet Nam war could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak...
...Those in Peril. Father Renard suggests that the more serious excesses of the mechanized libido be added to Catholicism's list of confessional sins. Among them: speeding, passing without sufficient visibility, driving while intoxicated. In sum, concludes Renard, the Christian must remember that operating an automobile is a human activity that must be "in harmony with our vocation as a spiritual being." To drive home his point, he quotes an auto-age version of the Sermon on the Mount...
...green light, let him be first at the next light. And whosoever shall try to pass thee imprudently with a less powerful car, slow down to let him do it more easily. I say unto you, love your enemies, love those who drive dangerously. They are in peril...