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...General Elliot Richardson argued that the film violated the privacy of inmates. Since then, Wiseman has gone from High School to Hospital to Basic Training. "Shooting these films about institutions," he has said, "is like being on the track of the Abominable Snowman. You're looking for cultural spoor wherever you go. A hospital or a high school is as much a ghetto as central Harlem, because most of us don't have the damnedest idea what goes on in them...
...minor curiosities of Nixon's address was the pointed thanks to French President Georges Pompidou for his "personal assistance" in arranging the secret talks. To discover the nature of the assistance, TIME Correspondents William Rademaekers in Paris and Jerrold Schecter in Washington traced the Kissinger spoor. It turns out that the first Kissinger mission, on Aug. 4, 1969, was set up through Jean Sainteny, a former French commissioner in Hanoi and a longtime intimate of North Viet Nam's late leader, Ho Chi Minh. When it became apparent that more Kissinger flights would be necessary, French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann...
...Philip, prosperity is just around the coroner. In Marlowe-an adaptation of Chandler's The Little Sister-he follows the spoor of a runaway brother who leaves ice picks in people's necks. On the trail, the shamus uncovers some California tourist attractions (Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno), some lethal gangsters, and the mandatory snide police lieutenant (Carroll O'Connor...
...Baines Johnson, the most boisterous, bumptious occupant of the White House in two decades, shuffled off to Texas like an injured bear to lick the wounds of office and hibernate for a while out of the public view. TIME Correspondent Don Neff has been following Johnson's elusive spoor, and last week he filed this report...
...damn for what they point to. If her wry defloration of ideology is pale beside Brecht's, her portrayal of convention-hall mores does not begin to approach Mencken's Murray & Co. have slightly humanized a drastically inhumane play by virtue of taste and skillful joining, but the blood-spoor lingers on the air. MacBird begins with a ritual murder and then fails both to implicate and to absolve its audience; the result is an experience of bland and almost complete detachment, and a document in the history of this tired old polis where agent and activity, critic and establishment...