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...Stab in the Back." Minister of Lands Charles Percival de Silva, 52, who had helped found the Freedom Party, protested the admission of the Trotskyites, but reported that Mrs. Bandaranaike assured him "she wouldn't change the policies of her husband by so much as the width of the stamen of a mustard flower." When the Trotskyite support was followed by that of the pro-Moscow Communist Party, De Silva had enough. With 13 other Freedom rebels, he bolted to the opposition, causing the government to fall last month by only a single vote...
...Making a Stab. All that would send U.S. spending to alltime highs-a record that Johnson is not anxious to break. The biggest previous budget was Kennedy's $98.4 billion in fiscal 1964; Johnson carefully kept his own first budget just below that figure, at $97.9 billion...
...Johnson certainly appeared to be making a stab at it. All last week department and agency heads winged in and out of the L.B.J. Ranch. Without exception, they emerged glassy-eyed over the President's cost-cutting efforts. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz told reporters: "There has been consideration given in the last few hours to the fact that we have been spending $12,500 (out of $511 million) on newspapers in the Department of Labor. We are going to cut that to $11,000." Outgoing Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges recalled that the President had inquired if he might...
...film's main interest lies in the novelty of a grubby Grant. He is miscast as a Bogart, but he makes a sprightly stab at crudity. When his dinghy starts to capsize with a full cargo of sweet young things, one tiny mutineer bites him, and he throws a capful of water in her face. When Caron slaps him, he lets her have it too. When Trevor Howard informs him that the island has a hidden treasure-trove of good Scotch whisky, Grant starts pawing the turf like Pavlov's dog. His engaging brand of rough-house finally...
...cinema of absurdity that falls somewhere between the Marx Brothers and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks...