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...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
...opinion, TIME missed the point about Bertolt Brecht. The U.S. Congress and American journalism regarded him as both stubborn and Marxist. But he wasn't. In his lifelong search for a politico-economic system that would not suppress but enlighten human goodness, he became disenchanted with Marxism, as he had earlier become disenchanted with the capitalism of his day. Brecht's view of mankind was optimistic. His search sprang from a comparison of the goodness of man with the badness of man's economic and political systems. His drama demands that we think about the "existence problem...
VICTORIAN SCANDAL, by Roy Jenkins. The Dilke Case was the Profumo Affair of the Victorian era, a politico-sexual scandal that rocked an administration and blasted the career of the man who at 42 had already been designated as Gladstone's successor. The story is authoritatively told by Historian Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary in Britain's Labor government...
Still, for years the College has tolerated student government of one kind or another. And student politicians have had to tolerate the profound disinterest aroused by their every utterance. One politico, Howie Phillips, found this too difficult. In 1960 he piloted the Harvard Student Council into the mainstream of Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, and the HSC promptly sank...
Tastefully garnished with green peas and celery, le grand visage stared out at the Japanese people from the cover of a new politico-nudie monthly magazine called Hoseki (Jewels). The outraged French ambassador, Francois Missoffe, complained to Japan's Foreign Office, calling the picture a "grave insult" to the honor of France and President Charles de Gaulle. Hoseki's managing editor Kozaburo Iga explained that his cover, titled "The Secret of Glory," was a "symbolic composite meant to congratulate the French President on his good health and a good healthy appetite." And the glorious girl? Well, said...