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McCarthy's attempt to fudge on the specifies of his proposals, and his ability to inspire confidence with soft-spoken wit and snide commentary on other candidates illuminate his psychological strategy. This tack, of course, has the drawback of alienating many black voters. It also confirms the suspicion that McCarthy has too much arrogant cynicism to be an active, imaginative President...
...different tack, Herba's I'm A Stranger Here Myself describes a boy's unmotivated need for an unspecified amount of money, and more properly investigates the relationship between actors, film, color, and light. Constantly in motion from interiors to exteriors in single hand-held takes, Herba's film makes an intense observation of how a given light setting will appear different under different conditions: the boy is walking down an overexposed street, he ducks into his car, the camera ducking with him, and is suddenly in perfect exposure...
...vote in the last elections but have regularly been excluded from a share in the government coalition, in which the Christian Democrats have recently been partners with the Democratic Socialists, the Socialists and the Republicans. This time, the Communists have decided to take a new campaign tack: instead of asking for votes only for themselves, they are working to elect a Parliament that would produce a ruling coalition in which the leftists would have much more clout...
While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...
Whether the NVA masses will ever at tack Khe Sanh became a matter of growing doubt and deepening divisions. Some ranking officers wondered if the enemy buildup there was only a diversion for the urban offensive further south or for a bypass thrust at Quang Tri or Danang. There was also a dawning realization that, for all President Johnson's warning against another Dienbienphu, Khe Sanh could be overrun by overwhelming human-wave attacks. A top U.S. general in Saigon reckoned that the base could be taken by 25,000 men in concerted assaults, "but a hell...