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...Fortune Cookie. Director Billy Wilder has taken the very rash risk in this film of spiking his big gun. In Cookie he keeps Jack Lemmon, a funnyman-in-motion who lacks the instincts of a sit-down comedian, sitting in a wheelchair that makes him seem foolish but never funny. With Lemmon immobilized, only a miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such...
...Usage in 1958, wanted "to do for the America of 1960 what Fowler had done for the England of 1926," but he died short of his goal five years later. His publishers, stuck with two-thirds of a book, surrendered it to a committee for completion. It was a rash decision, as General Motors' Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee was headed by Jacques Barzun, Columbia University's dean of faculty, who asked four-educators...
...economist it would be rash for me to recommend to you the specific policy measures that follow from my analysis. The proper goals of policy for economic equality are clear: the number of young Negroes completing high school and completing college must be increased very substantially. The quality of the education they receive must be made equal to the quality of education of whites. And more specific vocational skills must be made available, whether through apprenticeship programs, vocational schools, Now is the time fora cational schools, manpower training policies or on-the-job experience. These programs of human investment will...
Operation Harelip. The Army, which operates most of the U.S. military hospitals in Viet Nam, is hesitant about letting its medics take on civilian care, insisting that "our mission is to support our own troops." After a rash of plastic surgery for cleft-palate victims won the nickname "Operation Harelip" for all U.S. compassionate services, the Army officially put aid to civilians on an "emergency only" basis, partly on the ground that noisy children were disturbing sick servicemen...
...Premier Ky, victory in Danang was a significant strike toward stability but hardly the end of his troubles. "Certainly the Ky government is stronger today than it was two weeks ago," said one Saigon expert, "but two weeks from now? It is a rash, rash man who would try to predict." For one thing, Buddhist Political Leader Thich Tri Quang was still in Hué, South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, which was in rebel hands...