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Even to someone who has never read Casino Royale (which may not be such a horrible oversight) it is immediately clear that the movie borrows only a little and, I suppose, an audience from the book. The script, which appears to have been written by a select society on the order of the Warren Commission, is also about as funny as the Warren Report, and as likely to be the spy movie to end all spy movies as the Warren Commission's product is to be the final word on the Kennedy assassination...
...ordeal is not quite so horrible these days as it used to be. Still, all the Yalie juniors were holding their breath somewhat as the tappers fanned out from the windowless "tombs" of Yale's secret senior societies to perform the annual laying on of hands to select new members to their august company. Elihu, Scroll & Key, and the other four recognized societies chose more than 100 third-year men. Like Dink, Olympic Swimming Champion Don Schollander, 20, who brought back four gold medals from Tokyo in 1964, was tapped for Skull & Bones. In grateful awe, he accepted...
Challenge is toughening its policy for selecting teachers as well as students. Before most of the teachers were recruited at Registration. Now Challenge has teacher applications and interviews in the spring to select a staff for the following year. And the program is increasingly demanding a serious commitment from those who join up. Teachers must come back to Harvard a week early for a training session and must attend curriculum meetings during the year. The negligent or apathetic are being asked to leave...
...first stage of South Viet Nam's nationwide elections, the polling to select village officials, is nearing an end. So far, despite Viet Cong terrorism aimed at disrupting the elections, about 81% of all the voters in polling areas have gone to the polls to cast their ballots into the red-and-yellow straw boxes. By the end of April, some 1,800,000 Vietnamese in 991 villages will have exercised this basic right of democracy for the first time. In June, another 400,000 Vietnamese will vote in hamlet elections...
...clear from the beginning that the select committee would have to recommend some sort of punishment -- at least a censure. But if Conyers joined in that kind of recommendation, he faced the danger of being branded a "sellout." But he also knew that if Powell was to retain his seat, the committee report would've to be unanimous. Fearing that the committee would fragment -- and so aid those bitter-enders in the House who wanted to throw Powell out -- Conyers decided to work for unity within the committee. He would go along with proposals that censured Powell, as long...