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The script, written with considerable address by Playwright Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons), foreshortens but does not falsify the story as Lawrence told it. Sent to Arabia to scout the forces rising in revolt against Constantinople, Lieutenant Lawrence (O'Toole) impetuously leads a party of picked men...
Few mysteries seem beyond the soaring ambition of radio astronomers. In the past, most cosmographical theories were concocted by mathematicians sitting in quiet rooms and struggling with streams of abstractions. They were safe from experimental check because optical telescopes could not see far enough into the depths of the universe...
Professor Howard Zinn, of Spelman College in Georgia, compiled the Report for the moderate, hi-racial Southern Regional Council. He has drafted a far-sighted, specific and humane set of suggestions. The President and the Attorney General would do well to take them seriously.
India's angry millions, armed, trained and aided by the U.S., must be a prospect that not even Mao Tse-tung relishes facing. Instead, by in effect quitting while they are ahead, the Chinese can play the peacemakers in the short-sighted eyes of the neutral nations, while having...
In this situation prompt unilateral action was called for and taken, but the last thing we need is to congratulate ourselves on the outcome. The real lesson of the Cuban crisis is that a short-sighted and bungling diplomacy will inevitably drive us into a position where diplomacy is impossible...