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...HILL. Looking less like Bond and more like Gable, Sean Connery leads a handful of World War II unfortunates up and down a sandy pyramid in Director Sidney (The Pawnbroker) Lumet's forceful if conventional drama of men v. masters in a British army stockade...
...Hill. Under the merciless white sun, five soldiers bearing full packs stagger up the sandy slope of a man-made pyramid in North Africa. If they falter they face further punishment. If they fall, they are doused with water and forced to continue until they collapse from heat, hate and exhaustion. The five, led by an insubordinate British officer (Sean Connery) and a black West Indian sneak thief (Ossie Davis), are prisoners in a British army stockade during World War II. The architect of their torture on the hill is a brutal sergeant major (Harry Andrews) who believes that...
When State's distilling process works as it should, the best of the reporting lands on Rusk's desk, and thereby reaches the top of the department's globally based pyramid. His responsibility at this point is much misunderstood. Columnist James Reston, for example, took the department to task because it "has not developed for the President any guiding strategy of foreign policy or any order of priorities in that field." To such criticism, Rusk says: "While Mr. Truman's remark that 'the President makes foreign policy' is not the whole story, it serves...
...mayor of a metropolis at 41, what else is there left for him at 53 but to build a suitable monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When he showed it off to French Ambassador Hervé Alphand, the ambassador made the mistake of remarking that the Astrodome...
...surprisingly accurate view of the major controversies at the University in the last 200 years. For example, in 1877, suggested topics for the English essay included "The Essential Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes," "Insanity Among the Early Roman Emperors," and "The Science of the Great Pyramid, or The Evidence Afforded by the Great Pyramid of the Scientific Attainment of in Builders." In 1883, matters of science such as "Are the Atomic Weights Variable?" and "The Services of Physical Sciences in the Department of Mathematics" dominated the list. In 1897, the judges questioned "The Future...