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...space center's location is an issue which Congress should investigate with more than its usual care before making a final decision. As of the moment, the Administration has simply not proved that Boston must be the place. For the sake of its own political reputation as well as the good of the space program, the Administration should be required to defend its choice...
...August, for goodness' sake, and the temperature in Chicago was still 85° at 9 p.m. For the World Champion Green Bay Packers, preseasonitis set in fast. Passes drifted, backs ran into blockers, and 250-lb. defense men hungrily eyed the oxygen tank beside the bench. But the heat wasn't nearly as hot as the youthful College All-Stars. On third down and three, with the ball on the All-Star 27, Wisconsin's Quarterback Ron VanderKelen dropped back and flipped a 20-yd. pass to End Pat Richter, who neatly sidestepped the Green Bay safety...
Frank Converse is a properly handsome Achillas, but he speaks poorly. Young and dashing James Ray, dressed in blue and gold, is just right for Apollodorus, the aesthetics-minded carpet dealer whose motto is "Art for Art's sake." Nicholas Martin tries hard to be the insipid Ptolemy; but it is ridiculous to cast a grown man as a ten-year-old brat--King he may be, Canute...
...official policy toward literature has long been "socialist realism." Literature is expected not only to be inoffensive, but to actually contribute to the perfection of the workers' state. All decisions about literature are strictly political ones; there is no concern for art for its own sake...
...Hobo is a Japanese comedy in the Italian manner. The fine Japanese hand of Director Zenzo Matsuyama has blended the smiles-and-tears vagabondage of La Strada with the bumbling malfeasance of Big Deal on Madonna Street into a Campari and sake cocktail that may be bitter at first sip but is warm on the aftertaste...