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...oncoming day filled Saigon's Nguyen Cu Trinh Street. Across from the eight-story Metropole Hotel, the third largest American en listed men's billet in the city, buses be gan lining up for the day's run to the beaches of Vung Tau. The sputter of three-wheeled cyclo-pousse taxis occasionally disturbed the gloomy quiet. An American MP, automatic shotgun cradled in the crook of his arm, and a white-uniformed Vietnamese national policeman neared the end of their guard duty outside the Metropole. Inside, 160 American servicemen lay sleeping...
...your assessment of economic changes in the Soviet Union [Oct. 8], you write that "the Kremlin is admitting that Russia's economic engine is painfully sputtering." In confirmation, you advance the groundless argument about the Soviet Union's having lost its superiority over the U.S. in economic growth rates. There are indeed shortcomings in the Soviet economy. But that economy is developing more rapidly than envisaged by the Seven-Year Plan (1959-1965). The volume of industrial production increased 84% instead of 80% as planned. The average annual rate of industrial growth was 9.1%, more than double that...
...week's end, as the summiteers cried "Salaam" to each other and went their several ways, the fuse had been lit for the third round of war between the Arab states and Israel. It is a long fuse, and a slow one-so slow that it could easily sputter out before explosion. The diversion of the tributaries of the Jordan cannot begin until funds are raised and expensive dams built. What with Israel's threat and the violent disagreements that still plague the Arab world, it will be remarkable if a single gallon of the Jordan ever moves...
...think Arthur Pellman played Northumberland correctly. He blusters, and though early may certainly bluster, Northumberland is a very hard man. A man of such inflexible will would not sputter as Pellman does, he would speak distinctly. Of course, Barstow has decided to have all the North-country lords speak with a heavy accent, and if the bluster is part of the brogue, it may not be Pellman's fault...
...lawsuits with his critics and sent his large, figurative paintings floating down the Seine on a barge. In these 28 oils, his colors are as breathtaking as ever, but the bizarre brutality has been transformed into a fierce emotionalism. White and yellow cathedrals blaze against midnight blue, flowers sputter and spout like painted fireworks, and marionettes look out with sad-eyed plaintiveness. Through March...