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...looks good, though. Director Serge Bourguignon, 37, who made Sundays and Cybèle, turned himself loose on that old prop, the American desert. His stunning sweep of distance and nuance of color amount to a rediscovery of America, and his smallest scenes and routine closeups are invariably composed with care and elegance. But the action drifts with the unmotivated irrelevance of a dream...
Flying on to Rome in a two-prop U.S. Air Force Convair T-29, Fowler met with Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Governor of the Bank of Italy Guido Carli, and Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo. The Italians have been more sympathetic than most Europeans to the U.S. call for reform, and this time the meetings were cordial from the beginning. "We have given our fullest support" to the idea of an international conference, said Minister Colombo as he and Fowler left the meeting. For the first time, Fowler indicated that the U.S. has a time table for reform: talks...
...past few months, but with a record crop forecast for next season, traders predict that the recovery will be short-lived. Though it can ill afford the expense, the Brazilian government expects to buy up half of this year's crop in an effort to prop prices. Colombia, dependent on coffee for 70% of its exports, has resorted to bartering for goods that it lacks the dollars...
...Communists have always regarded their press as a prop of the regime. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria, Molotov all served time on Russian newspapers and used them to consolidate their power. "No tool so flexible," said Stalin, referring to the press, "is to be found in nature." Today, some 7,000 of these tools-ranging from the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, to crude factory handouts-are published in 121 languages in Russia...
...leader. North Viet Nam's Ho was making his last and most steely stand, and his young country seemed ready to win or die with him. Since February, U.S. air strikes into North Viet Nam have pounded Ho steadily: in more than 4,050 sorties, jets and prop bombers have razed at least 30 military bases, knocked out 127 antiaircraft batteries, shattered 34 bridges. In their wake the planes left ablaze 17 destroyed truck convoys and an equal number of weapons-carrying trains, along with 20 radar stations, 33 naval craft and the entire Dong Hoi airbase. Yet even...