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...with a dramatic role frankly reminiscent of The Edge of Night. Riddle it all with Barbara Streisand and you have The Bull Gets The Matador Once In A Lifetime. For a first production of an original play by a young author and a dewy cast it covers awfully familiar terrain...
...came to precisely the opposite conclusion. Government control was found to be greatest in those provinces in which "few peasants farm their own land, the distribution of landholdings is unequal, no land redistribution has taken place, large French landholdings existed in the past, population density is high, and the terrain is such that accessibility is poor." This seemingly perverse product of statistical analysis is bolstered by other substantial if less systematic evidence for Viet Nam as well as by much experience elsewhere. The appeal of revolutionaries depends not on economic deprivation but on political deprivation, that is, on the absence...
...like it's his last great moment." Mc-Culloch's latest findings went to Associate Editor Lance Morrow, who has chronicled the Hughes saga from our cover story of Jan. 24 through this week's article. It would be unfair to poach on Morrow's terrain by telling more here. After all, the tale, as Morrow says, "is a detective yarn that has everything...
Much of the report retraces the familiar terrain of the spectacular Nixon initiatives in "the watershed year" of 1971: his historic overture to China, his abrupt shake-up of world monetary and trade policies, his personal summitry with U.S. allies, and the invitation for him to visit Moscow. The personal pride with which Nixon views these moves shows through, as does the belligerence with which he defends his also familiar-and still embattled -policy on Viet...
Charles de Gaulle, leader and symbol of victorious Free France, visited Russia in 1944, and his hosts took him to visit the battlefield at Stalingrad. De Gaulle pensively surveyed the terrain, then turned to the Russians and said: "A great people-[pause] the Germans." The story, perhaps apocryphal, tells much about the man: his frosty independence, his detached historical perspective, his ability to deliver the calculated shock...