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...gentle, uncomplaining people of Bikini did not protest the decision to take their atoll away from them, perhaps forever. When American officials told of great atomic explosions that would devastate their paradisal speck of coral, sand and palms, Bikini's Magistrate Juda took counsel. "If the U.S. Government needs to use our houses for the goodness of mankind," Juda decided, "then by the kindness of God we are willing...
Last week President Johnson decreed an end to the exile of the Bikinians, now a scattered community of 500. After 23 atomic and hydrogen bomb tests, the last in 1958, the poisons of nuclear radiation have dissipated from the sand and sea around their native atoll, and the Bikinians can at last return to their home...
Director Dusan Vukotic's parodies of TV commercials, bureaucracy and the like may be daring back home, but they sink slowly in the West. And the film's whimsy is often as thick as wet sand. Still, Vukotic's insights into child psychology are often ingenious, and his blend of animation and bright, appealing color occasionally makes The Seventh Continent look like a feat of Klee...
...suburbs, getting 211,269 votes to 192,163 for Long and 169,312 for Conservative W. True Davis, with all but 33 precincts counted. Long bitterly called his defeat a victory for "snoopers," adding: "The man who builds a house on public service builds it of straw and on sand." Eagleton faces able Republican Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, 57, in November. If elected, Curtis would be the first G.O.P. candidate to win a statewide race in Missouri since...
...called an existential Pilgrim's Progress. Is he simply trying to escape the ties of his former life, or is he really bent on revolutionizing the world by fighting for Communism and the Algerians? The relentless sun becomes a more formidable combatant than the French, the endless sand a more unarguable reality than any dialectic...