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...five-day hearings on Viet Nam fell short of that ideal, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may nonetheless have served well to quicken public interest in the conflict and-though certainly not by intent-to bulwark the Administration's case that it is a necessary...
...shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with its intelligence and insight curtailed, still pays off handsomely as a shocker sure to quicken the pulse of any anxious working girl who has to walk home unescorted...
...Heller continues to have his say, President Johnson's basic concern will be over how the U.S. economy can quicken its growth. The conventional answer is that more exciting new products must be found to spark consumer demand and to start up new industries. In the opinion of Simon Ramo, vice chairman of space-age Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, "we do not have that kind of rapid, exciting growth in new products for civilian use that our scientific base would lead us to expect...
Despite the vigor of Solomon and Weiner, and several fine contributions by Pennell Rock and William Hart in supporting roles, last night's performance was lethargic and occasionally listless. Ondine is a wonderful play however, and if director Howe can quicken his pace he will have a perfectly adequate production well worth seeing...
...Nathan M. Pusey said he would take a special interest in trying "to keep assembled here the very best teachers that can be found, to work to ensure conditions conducive to their best efforts, and constantly to strive for more effective ways to make their activity touch, quicken, and strengthen the intellectual aspirations of succeeding generations of young people...