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...situations like this, in which evidence of great stress is required, Steiger is not an actor to be trusted. He weeps frequently and unconvincingly. In fairness, he tries to restrain himself through much of the film, but he has become such a victim of his own mannerisms that he even overdoes underplaying. Similarly, Hennessy itself breaks down at crucial points. Director Don Sharp manages things well enough, however, to extract the maximum amount of tension and suspense from the kind of assassination plot that can come close to working only in movies...
...with little practical purpose. (And the new measure does extend coverage to other groups such as Indians, Latins in the Southwest and Asiatics in Hawaii.) Though the South claims that the Voting Rights Act represents a kind of reverse discrimination, there may be no other way of continuing to restrain pressures against black voting. Except for one minor compromise - extending the act for seven years instead of the ten years voted by the House - Senate liberals apparently had the votes to beat off any amendments and pass the renewal...
...recommendations have dried up. Intelligence sources variously describe the Directorate of Operations as "dead in the water" and "paralyzed." While CIA leaders call such characterizations overblown, other Government officials note that the agency has shown no sign of taking action, which might have been expected in the past, to restrain Portugal's lurch toward a left-whig dictatorship...
Torrijos has tried to restrain Panamanians, particularly the country's 24,000 volatile students, from launching assaults on the 39,200 "Zonians"-American servicemen, their families and employees of the Panama Canal Zone Co. "If it was not for this direct contact between Torrijos and the students, there could be a confrontation," says one young Panamanian activist. Torrijos' own reassuring refrain is that "we should not look at things negatively." He has tried to enlist the support of members of the Organization of American States and Third World countries of the United Nations behind his sovereignty campaign...
...fringes. Only seven states permit some strikes by government workers, but the workers increasingly ignore bans in other states. Their unions staged 380 strikes last year-and only 15 in 1958. In the aftermath of the recession, the number may increase this year as impecunious cities try to restrain wages or reduce work forces. Declared Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman: "The issue is who is going to manage the cities-the mayor or the city employees...