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...most countries, men of letters have had small success in righting the wrongs of an unjust trial. But France boasts two famous instances in which a literary man with the national destiny on the tip of his tongue has appeared to sear the public conscience. Most celebrated is Emile Zola's "J'accuse," which helped reverse the verdict in l'affaire Dreyfus. Less well known but historically probably more significant was Voltaire's angry intervention in l'affaire Calas...
...feet of film, trenchantly photographed by Richard Bagley (The Quiet One). All this has been sensitively cut by Carl Lerner into a 65-minute movie that promises the safe delights of slumming but carries the, spectator into scenes that will sear his eyeballs like a splash of rotgut...
...Moreover, shrewd managers do not become complacent even when their profits, year after year, are large. The test is whether the company's profits are growing along with the industry trend. For example, Montgomery Ward's percentage of profit on its gross business always compares well with Sears, Roebuck's percentage. But the profits of Sears have grown far beyond Ward's because of Sear s vast increase in total business...
...Plus-One: An elite Moroccan battalion counterattacks on Bald Head. It is close-quarter battle with light machine guns, rifles, knives, grenades and crude bamboo spears. Six times the hill changes hands. At 0700, French 19-ton tanks and flamethrower squads sear the Communists out. The Moroccans count 300 Communist dead on just one segment of their broken wire. De Castries radios HQ: "I am still master of the situation...
...firemen who tried to stop the fires. Their tactics showed how long the Communists had prepared. When police jeeps came after them at night, someone would blow a whistle and the street lights would go out. Then, at the moment of blindness, they would rush from the alleys, sear the cops with acid and drive them from the street...