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...melodramas, among many others. The critical consensus has always been that genre restricts, an attitude shared still by condescending, if blind, people like Pauline Kael or Bosley Crowther. But for all the mediocre westerns churned-out which reaffirm genre as tantamount to cliche and formula, we have Hawks's Rio Bravo or Ford's The Searchers, both of which use genre background as a means of allowing their protagonists the fullest range of individual expression. For all the cheap detective thrillers, we have Lang's The Big Heat with its articulate vision of urban corruption and the need to fight...
...Ondine, a 73-ft. 6-in. ketch that is the prettiest, most opulent and-on the chart of her first two races-the fastest-racing yacht on the high seas. Last February, in her competitive debut, Ondine clipped two hours off the course record for the Buenos Aires-Rio run, covering 1,200 miles in less than 190 hours. Two weeks ago, in the 635-mile Newport-Bermuda race, Ondine was becalmed for twelve hours, but still led the 151-boat fleet across the finish. Her time-83 hrs. 12 min.-was a full hour faster than the second boat...
Impressed by the success of student protests elsewhere, Rio's students began their own demonstrations and disorders two months ago. Their discontent has focused on Education Minister Tarso Dutra, a weak administrator whom Costa refuses to replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each...
Cops, in fact, seemed for a while to be the government's only answer. Authorities arrested more than 800 stu dents, sent plainclothesmen to keep an eye on others. Gradually, a form of urban guerrilla warfare broke out in Rio. Students hurled pointed stones dug up from the sidewalks, burned an army truck and at one point barricaded Avenida Rio Branco. Mounted police charged with drawn sabers; police also pelted students with tear-gas grenades, finally opened fire with rifles. From overhead windows, meanwhile, office workers showered police with such desktop flak as ashtrays and paperweights. Clashes between police...
With Hindsight. Last week Rio's Roman Catholic Vicar General, Bishop José de Castro Pinto, gave his permission to priests and nuns to join the anti-government marches, and the Catholic clergy issued a statement declaring that "we hold just the principal complaints of our youth." Coming from Brazil's powerful Catholic church, the two moves were serious criticism of Costa's government. Anxious to avoid further violence and disturbed by some army officers critical of government inaction, Costa finally promised to name a "work group," including students, to draft improvements in the schools...