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...sabre, the Swiss submits bluntly that he will bring a machine gun. Clark plays the chocolate cream soldier competently if monotonously, as a debonair impostor. He is forever raising his eyebrows to convince the audience of his nonchalance, and if he really had to incorporate the cigarette as a prop, he might have learned to inhale the harsh Bulgarian blend. The director fails in this production to show that the decisions Bluntschli makes are sincere responses to real crises--the love affair here has been reduced to a flirtation and the specter of war that is supposed to haunt...
...withdrawal of U.S. advisers, who had played a key role in leading and coordinating ARVN's operations even after Vietnamization began, removed a crucial psychological prop...
...principal objectives: to offer other Latin nations an alternative to Washington's leadership. Venezuela has pledged $50 million to an incipient cartel of five Latin American nations. The loan is to enable them to cut coffee production in an attempt to prop up prices. In addition, Venezuela and Mexico are the main forces behind an embryonic Latin economic community that aims, among other things, to create multicountry firms to export the region's raw materials...
...million deficit, the alltime highest for a U.S. airline. There is a certain irony, therefore, in the fact that desperately needed succor will come from a major instigator of high oil prices. Last week the White House endorsed a deal by which the government of Iran will prop up Pan Am with some $300 million...
Died. George E. Marshall, 83, prolific Hollywood director; in Los Angeles. Hired as an extra at Universal Studios in 1912, Marshall became successively a bit player, prop boy, makeup man, film editor, cameraman, and director of hundreds of serials, farces and westerns. Among his credits: Tom Mix flicks of the '20s, You Can 't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), and How the West...