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Indian Premier Shastri made the week's most sensible speech, among other things chiding the Africans for their own racial discrimination against Indians, pointedly rebutting Sukarno by insisting that "our policy must not be confrontation but cooperation," causing a stir by suggesting that the conference send a mission to Red China urging them not to test their nuclear bomb. The delegates quickly ducked that idea, but also resisted the more incendiary language of Sukarno & Co. The conference painfully put together a sweeping final communiqué damning "neo-imperialism," predictably citing South Africa and Angola, but preposterously including even Puerto...
...dialogue was intended to stir consciences rather than save souls, and it seems to have done just that. Said a farmer: "Now it's O.K. to talk religion in the feed mill." A teen-aged girl was so moved by the discussions that she gave $40, all her savings, to her church. Hearing of a Negro G.I.'s disappointment in not finding a home, a landlord immediately offered him an apartment. The local Catholic and Protestant clergy, meeting for the first time while preparing for the week, found the experience so agreeable that they have set up monthly...
...line between interpretation and advocacy is a fine one. And there are critics who contend that this year the press has not always walked that line with sure-footed skill. Part of the reason, of course, was Barry Goldwater, whose conservative Republicanism could hardly have been expected to stir enthusiasm among predominantly liberal reporters. It is difficult to be neutral about Goldwater, and early off, the press was not neutral...
...default, Slattery's People is the best, even if it is a kind of provincial Advise and Consent, taking its milieu-as so many TV shows vulturistically do-from an earlier showbiz success. Slattery, played by Richard Crenna, is a state legislator. The story last week did stir up an at least plausible atmosphere of cameral politics. Slattery turned the chamber into a courtroom, fingering an older senator who had deliberately quashed a bill that jeopardized his personal financial interests. The program is fearless. It was sponsored in part by Chase & Sanborn, and the crooked old senator...
...this time, and that means plenty is going to happen, none of it original. The characters, except for a regulation Blimp (Stewart Granger), are stir-type stereotypes: a bomb-tossing boyo (Mickey Rooney) from the I.R.A., a Little Caesar (Raf Vallone) with eyes that smoke like gun barrels, a twitchy-faced psychopath (Henry Silva) so hipped on homicide that he murders babies when he runs out of adults. What's more, the plot is a weary old war horse: the villainous heroes, who fight at the start to save their own skins, fight to the finish to save...