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...better shape, the 240-lb. man who can pick up the front end of a Honda Civic or the 89-lb. woman who can run the Boston Marathon in 2:48:33, as 41-year-old Miki Gorman did this year? The zealots of the new fitness say, with rueful shakes of their heads, that if the weight lifter can't run a mile and three-quarters in twelve minutes (assuming he is under 30), he can't claim to be in excellent shape, and that if he can't trundle at least one mile in that...
...head clear on the Pentagon papers." Over at the New York Times, the Bay of Pigs lesson was well learned. At President Kennedy's personal request, the Times did not print what it knew in advance of the invasion, only to be told afterward by a rueful Kennedy that had the story been published, the misbegotten adventure would have been canceled. The news suppression that angered Bradlee most was the bombing of Cambodia: "The people who were being bombed knew it, the Godless Commies knew it, only the American people didn't. In almost 20 years in a decision-making...
...book's terms, the scheme seems justifiable. Harwar is strong, and though he is an alcoholic, he has been off the sauce for seven months. He stays sober for nearly two weeks more in San Francisco as he waits to wreck the vessel. But Hayden is a rueful realist, and the book's conclusion allows no romantic vengeance. The great, evil ship still floats, Harwar is stony drunk, and he and his dreams of social justice drift off on the tidal rip. John Skow
Here is a handy, breezy re-creation of one of the cold war's early frosts: the House Un-American Activities Committee's red-baiting in Hollywood. This period has been undergoing some rueful re-examination of late - most notably in The Front (TIME, Oct. 11). While history has done no one proud, it has at least demonstrated that some held up better than others under the gruesome, improbable pressures of the congressional test...
...really didn't have to, since the growth of the story is away from the comic mode toward something more rueful, and more interesting, in mood. Bogdanovich ends his film with the 1915 premiere of The Birth of a Nation, the first major American feature-length film, a work of unprecedented scope, cost and profitability. Its success over night made the movies into a serious business. To remain competitive there after required a considerable investment of time and money...