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...Pipedream. Even the Russians did not claim that the U.S. had bombed innocent civilians. Indeed, though the Administration had dire misgivings in advance about world reaction, most foreign comment was either fairly mild or else cut-and-dried violent, as if the tirades had been spiked for weeks in expectation of the raids...
...Secretary-General U Thant was predictably pious (and for a neutral official, inappropriately political), expressing "deep regret" over the bombing of "heavily populated areas" and plugging his pet pipedream that by halting the air strikes the U.S. could end the war. The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano viewed with concern, fretting that "news such as this cannot be learned without regret and also without worries." Charles de Gaulle, to nobody's surprise, joined his Moscow hosts in an expression of "alarm" and a warning of the "increasing instability" in Southeast Asia,which-he forbore to note...
...thirds of the movie one follows Billy's elaborate imbroglios and fanciful disentanglements in a spirit of high hilarity. (Whenever he finds himself pinched in a particularly sticky wicket he sees himself suddenly in a trooper's uniform, spattering his tormentors with submachine-gun bullets.) But finally, after his pipedream of a big-city job collapses, after the boss catches him embezzling, when Liz leaves for London without him and he faces the death of his grandmother and fury of his father we realize that the pathetic little mirage of Ambrosia is Billy's permanent residence...
...subsidies, with government money pouring into colleges and universities. This money would permit modernization and expansion of college plants, they say, and prevent a cutback in the number of students and size of faculty. Most educators, however, feel that the idea of government endowment without government control is a pipedream...
...Pipedream? Reporters asked: Had the Secretary talked the plan over with the President or with Jesse Jones whose Defense Plant Corporation technically owns the plants? No, he replied, the plan was still "fluid...