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Some very unsettling arguments have been set forth in defense of Resnais' well-publicized hit. In the swamp of praise this one bobs to the surface most frequently...
...Inflationary Swamp. After many years of remarkable self-restraint, West German unions have picked up the chant of Construction Workers Chief Georg Leber: "Get all you can." The Germans have a lot of getting to do: family income averages only $181.30 a month and at the rate pay has been going up in recent years, German wages will not catch up with U.S. wages for 20 years-if even then. But wages in the past twelve months have soared 14%, wiping out.a productivity gain of 7%. Businessmen have covered part of the increase by raising prices (Germany's export...
...they are dwarfed by the 310-ft. gantry and 240-ft. umbilical tower of the Saturn C-1 site, which boasts the most elaborate blockhouse in the space business. A second gantry and tower are rising fast, and farther north NASA is buying thousands of acres of beachland, swamp and orange groves for the stupendous equipment needed to launch the great C-5 moon rockets. These intricate monsters, 325 ft. tall, will not be put together on the pads, as is the present practice. The C55 will be assembled...
...Riviera. Franco's regime is rightly proud of its sprawling Plan Badajoz. the 40-mile-long irrigation project along the Guadiana River near the Portuguese border; here a onetime malarial swamp has been turned into fertile fields that make Spain all but self-sufficient in cotton and rice...
Boon yearns after the car with the innocent lust of man for machine. Somehow enlisting the help of Boss Priest's grandson, young Lucius, Boon "borrows" the car. Twenty-three and a half hours later-a record for the 80 miles of swamp road they heroically cover-Boon and Lucius reach Memphis. Just four days after that, they are back home in Jefferson again. In a series of outlandishly comic episodes, they have somehow lost the car and won it back, found a stolen horse and raced it, spent an innocent night in a Memphis bordello run by young...