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...pumpkins could vote, would have voted for Ike. "Wyeth country"-the Pennsylvania farm land around Chadds Ford, where he spends the winter, and the summer acreage in Maine-has become landscape as myth or monument by now, the American middlebrow's equivalent of Cezanne's Mont-Ste.-Victoire or Monet's lily ponds at Giverny...
Their reconciliation with the poor people of the region takes place surprisingly quickly, given the youths' inexplicable behaviour and the resentment they engender as sons of the rich. When they are joined by the prissy prettiness of the future Ste. Clare Judi Bowker), who has accompanied St. Francis on many an interminable nature-walk, any tenuous suspension of disbelief crumbles. Although Zeffirelli spares us cinematic tricks of visions and revelations, his harping on a band of post-adolescent outcasts of society, in search of their lost youth and a Rousseauian utopia, mars the simplicity of the tale just as badly...
...forceful witness was Swedish Journalist Sven Öste, foreign editor of Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm's largest morning newspaper. During a visit to North Viet Nam, he charged that the U.S. was using such bombs as "a new method of inflicting terror on the population back of the dikes." The magnetic bombs prevented workers from using machines to fill in craters from earlier explosions, said Öste, and some of the bombs were capable of burying themselves deep below the surface...
Near a village in Nam Ha province, said Öste, he visited a dike where 16 bombs fell-twelve of them delayed-action. One direct hit tore a hole in a dike that protects an area in which 400,000 people live. No military objectives were in sight, said Öste, not even a road. His conclusion: Washington was attempting to pass off the dike attacks to the U.S. public as "accidents" and "mistakes," while "at the same time making sure that Hanoi knows the attacks against the dams are a deliberate effort to force the Hanoi government to give...
Some private villa owners good-naturedly complied. Prince Bertil of Sweden, a democratic fellow who wears a beret while riding around Ste.-Maxime on a mini-motorcycle, willingly cut a passage through the wicker fence around his villa's beach. At Cabasson, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who could claim extraterritoriality for her beach by virtue of her title, readily admitted sunbathers and swimmers to her beach provided they were decently dressed and not too noisy...