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...Sting Removed. The strike in Madrid was not an isolated case. After long years of suppression by the Franco regime, the Spanish labor movement is beginning to come alive. Late in 1965, Franco signed a law granting Spaniards the right to strike for the first time since the Civil War. True enough, the right was carefully limited. No strike that had the slightest political overtones would be allowed, and no strike of any kind could be called until labor leaders had gone through weeks of mediation and complicated bureaucratic process to obtain government permission...
...egotism ("The Day I Became a Genius"). The humorous musings of an amateur athlete ("Boxing and Me-the Boxer"). The details on an experimental camera that can shoot film in any light range ("Camera! Action!-What, No Lights?"). And sprinkled throughout are some mild little jokes that carry no sting...
...becoming increasingly obvious that this much-vaunted edifice, the pride of the Johnson Administration, though designed to abate the sting of the inequities of opportunity inherent in our system, is not achieving the promised result. Where are the American resources and determination that could fulfill this country's promise? They are concentrated in a small country in Southeast Asia, where the Johnson Administration thinks it can impose a political house of cards upon a proud people...
...help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants and a chauffeur-driven limousine, and likes to screen her old movies for guests in the Mao villa. But there she was on stage, drawing noisy applause as she inveighed against such capitalist poisons as "rock...
...Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time out for blather...