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Again, as in the Flies, a pessimistic view of man's basic aggressiveness is the theme, but it's the uncannily fresh tone of the Buttons which makes it a delightful success. When those English lads charmingly chanted "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Spill his Blood!" it became clear that their best was a curiously grisly Disney. When these French scamps taunt their enemies, "All the Valerans are ass-scratchers!" they are convincing and rambunctiously Rabelaisian...
Last week, for only the third time, the President held a full-dress conference for live TV. It was a considerable success. On hand was a record audience of 512, including about 150 visiting editors. Johnson, low-toned and relaxed, admitted backhandedly what everyone has known for months-that he intends to run for President this year. Asked how he felt about a poll of the editors that indicated he would win, he replied: "I hope they feel in November as they do in April." He ranged from the state of the U.S. economy (see BUSINESS) to the progress...
Cleaning House. One obvious key to success is how wisely the new government cleans house. Under Goulart, leftist groups were nourished by government corruption. The large Communist labor unions lived off federal doles; Petrobrás, the state oil monopoly, spent billions of cruzeiros to bankroll the National Student Union and other extremists of the left. Last week federal "interventors" were in command of most of Brazil's labor unions and state enter prises, including Petrobrás. Meanwhile, the arrests and imprisonments by the new government continued with a grim purpose that sent shivers up many Brazilian spines...
Young Vladimir was deeply influenced by the Russian revolutionary tradition stemming from the anarchists, by the peasant-dreamer Tkachev, and by the demonic intriguer Nechaev. Vladimir accepted without qualification Nechaev's famous dictum: "Everything that promotes the success of the revolution is moral; everything that hinders it is immoral...
...From then on," said one of the conspirators, "we were pretty sure we had it made." "A magnificent hoax," laughed Admissions Director Dunham. Flushed with success, the four are looking forward to next year. "We'd like to get Joe's girl friend into Vassar," a spokesman said...