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This golden tide owes its swell chiefly to Switzerland's reputation for neutrality, conservatism and sound currency. (Today, the Swiss franc is backed more than 100% by gold.) The Swiss have sheltered foreign possessions as well as people through the Thirty Years' War, the Huguenot persecutions, the 1848 revolutions, and the last three major wars in Europe...
True or not, such gemütlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset, but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white...
...Brave. As producer, director and star of this World War II melodrama, Frank Sinatra is triply committed to a piece of flip moral hindsight. War is archaic, he says. It is also rough on brotherhood. But he cannot conceal his boyish enthusiasm for any activity that brings together a swell bunch of guys...
...Hello, Nancy," said Lyndon B. Johnson last summer, stepping out of his plane at Atlantic City, "I've been watching you all day, and you're doing a swell job." L.B.J. was talking to Nancy Dickerson, an NBC Washington correspondent who has been a Johnson family friend since she covered his earliest attempts at the presidential nomination five years ago. Later, from Austin on the night of Johnson's election, the President's affectionate "Hello, Nancy" was heard so often that some viewers wondered why he didn't sing...
Being 22 years old, Michael may legally accept a drink from any of his father's friends in Darien. And for the first time in months, Darien felt a swell of civic pride...