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Small and intriguing tales like these surround the geneses of most of America's great films: think of all those people who told Selznick that Gone With The Wind would never sell. Unfortunately, The African Queen falls far short of greatness, selling short its colorful background, despite the efforts of its talented creators (add to the list a fine short story writer, John Collier, whose contribution to the script equalled that of Huston and Agee, and photographer Jack Cardiff, then Carol Reed's right-hand man and cameraman on Hitchcock's magnificent Under Capricorn...
...Short Month. Menacing as the situation appeared around Saigon, the main enemy threat still hung over the northern provinces below the DMZ. The siege around Khe Sanh closed tighter than ever; the outpost is now surrounded by two divisions and a regiment. As the NVA crept closer and closer to the camp's perimeter, one probing patrol of South Vietnamese Rangers hardly got outside the camp when they came under heavy enemy attack and had to retreat. In a way, the entire northern edge of South Viet Nam has come under the same sort of siege. Allied strength...
...encircled Marines at Khe Sanh, air is much more than just the stuff they breathe; it is their lifeline, their hope, their only chance of survival if they are attacked by the 30,000 or so North Vietnamese regulars who surround them. As part of one of the most massive aerial support and attack campaigns ever mounted, U.S. pilots struggled to sustain and shield Khe Sanh. Air Force and Marine transport pilots last week flew 79 supply sorties, delivering nearly 1,200 tons of food, water, medicine and ammunition to the besieged outpost. Fighter-bombers and giant B-52s flew...
...Myriad of Myths. Galbraith's latest published work, The New Industrial State, a bestseller for the past 31 weeks, is an even more ambitious book. In it, Galbraith sets out to describe the modern economic structure minus the myriad myths that surround it. What he finds in the U.S. is a phalanx of giant companies, perhaps 500 in all, dominating the landscape. The competitive market has largely disappeared, the victim of an advertising machine that creates and manipulates demand (mostly, he maintains, by means of commercial TV). Well-schooled technicians and managers?the "technostructure"?run the show. Though...
Everyone had been in Chicago last summer. They tried to surround the auditorium where the Democratic Convention was going on. They had little to lose. They were going to jail anyway, they said. One of the troops fired, and there was a riot. The black neighborhood exploded. That was Chicago. Everyone was in Chicago last summer. But now it is fall, and Chicago is gone...