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...back large groups of impatient peasants invading haciendas in the Andean highlands. Early this month soldiers were forced to fire on 300 Indians who descended on a ranch north of Lima, killing three squatters and wounding two. So strong is the pressure that the government is sidestepping its careful, step-by-step program and plunging ahead...
...Philip, made in 1926 under Supervising Director Leo Mc-Carey, with George Stevens as cameraman. Stan plays a kilted skirt-chaser, accompanied by shamefaced Ollie through shrewdly orchestrated slapstick etudes. From Soup to Nuts is a tiny masterpiece of physical comedy, as rigorously controlled as ballet in its step-by-step demolition of an elegant dinner party by two nincompoop waiters for whom a dog, a banana peel, three whipped-cream cakes, and a lady in a sliding tiara add up to disaster. The theme of tit-for-tat destruction, a comedy cliche raised to classic stature...
...INTERROGATORS by Allan Prior. 319 pages. Simon & Schuster. $5.50. Although this is basically a procedural, step-by-step police-hunt story of the usual British high caliber, the author tried to give it a literary quality with a lot of red brick class feeling and the private problems of a pair of tippling Midlands detectives. The result is a pretty good novel, but not for those who like their detection without social conscience...
...rather barren grounds that a second party must be kept in the running. Patent political grows out of grave weaknesses in the character of the Republican Party, weaknesses which resulted in the Goldwater nomination. Rovere with his careful analysis of Goldwater and Goldwaterism, and Novak with his step-by-step account of the Goldwater victory in San Francisco, expose these weaknesses and help show what a faltering and confused animal the Republican elephant has become
Just as an unwary reader is about to decide that Pim is man in the hands of a tyrant deity, Bom himself embarks on a chilling step-by-step proof of the existence of some sort of God above them both. He remembers (or projects) an endless series of couplings like his with Pim and then a vast, ordered switching of partners as each Pim crawls on to find and torment a new Bom, and each Bom waits to be found and tormented by a new Pim. This elaborate pattern of exchanged cruelty, Bom cagily reasons, suggests...