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This time, with Paz determined to prop the collapsing economy, the most eloquent message from the distressed princess is likely to fall on tin presidential ears...
...Director Philippe de Broca. who never before made a movie on his own and now emerges as the biggest comic talent of the new school of Gallic cinema. Considering his youth and inexperience, De Broca's technique is startlingly mature. He has a frenzied flair for sight and prop gags, but he never lets them disturb the deeper humor of the scene-many moviegoers may for instance fail to observe that the painter-hero cleans his brushes on, of all things, an old black...
SUBSONIC JET PLANE will be developed by the Air Force to transport troops and cargo anywhere in the world. The plane, for which Congress approved $50 million for design studies, will be designated the SOR-182 and replace the Military Air Transport Service's aging prop-driven...
...Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations, for they insist that Lumumba is the only-or at least the legally proper-man for the job. And just as Hammarskjold was preparing to dispatch a 15-man African and Asian conciliation commission...
...past five years, the U.S. has poured $300 million in military and economic aid into primitive, soporific Laos to prop up a succession of anti-Communist governments and to help fend off the skulking guerrillas of the Communist Pathet Lao. About all that remains of that policy and all those millions is anti-Communist General Phoumi Nosavan, who is nursing his pride in southern Laos after taking a shellacking from Kong Le's para troopers...