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Hand in the Trap. Argentine Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson takes a Bergmanesque approach in telling a story of passion and provincial puritanism. His caustic comments on the Argentine way of life, which makes prisoners of women, are both vivid and ironic...
...exciting cities, Rotterdammers have little else to do but work and plan. The city's businessmen and burghers have learned well how to bludgeon their projects through the Dutch government. One favorite trick is to get a commitment for projects on the basis of low-cost estimates, then trap the government into supporting rising estimates once the project is under way. Filling 3,125 watery acres for the Botlek oil piers in 1954, Rotterdammers estimated costs at $35.9 million; eventually, after the government gave approval, the piers cost $41.4 million. When the government refused permission for a runway extension...
Hand in the Trap. Once upon a wedding night, a bride hid from her husband. She hid in a wooden chest that was shaped like a coffin-and then, to her horror, found that she could not lift the lid. She called and called, but no one could hear her. They looked and looked, but no one could find her. Twenty years later, they found what was left of her: a skeleton in tulle...
...Chauffeur. It began in November 1960. when Penkovsky got fed up with his Moscow job. Seeking "the easy life," Penkovsky said he sent a letter to the U.S. embassy in Moscow, offering his services to the U.S. According to Penkovsky, officials in Washington ignored the offer, fearing a trap. But Penkovsky was determined to work for the West. His chance came at last when he struck up a conversation with Wynne the following month at a Moscow reception for visiting British technicians. Wynne was happy to meet the Russian, he said, because Soviet contacts were useful for his machinery business...
...techniques. One of the Viet Cong's latest tactics has been to mount a series of feinting attacks on a target, then to withdraw, luring government reserve forces into a well-laid ambush. As a result, badly needed reinforcements often hang back for fear of walking into a trap. Such a war is a new and frustrating experience for U.S. military advisers. Mindful of the fact that 73 Americans have lost their lives in the fighting so far, their most bitter complaint is that military operations are constantly hobbled by political considerations. The big command decisions have...