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...pretends to concern itself with a moral problem: whether to save the masterworks or spare the men. It must have seemed a dull question to Director John Frankenheimer, who simply shunts morality onnto a siding and concentrates on the conflict between a fanatic villain and an athletic hero, playing tug of war with real trains. The results are exhilarating, but only in a muscular...
...Marines to land on the shores of Lancelot are met by cheering natives. Lancelot's sovereignty is imperiled by guerrilla bands that have infiltrated from the neighboring country of Merlin, and the U.S. has sent the Marines to the rescue. The natives throng around their American saviors, tug at the Marines' packs, playfully grab their guns. In their enthusiasm, some of the Lancelotians seize field telephone wire and get it hopelessly snarled; others, trying to help land a truck, succeed only in pushing the vehicle deeper into the surf...
Bell, like Edward Banfield in the article following his, has picked out the problem of the city. The traditional tug-of-war between city and country has been settled for good, and the central question now is "the organization of life within the city itself." Bell's evaluation is concise: the social costs with which New York has paid for each of its new "faces" can only be minimized by central planning. But, as in most cities, master-planning in New York has been a flop, and decisions are still made by "a calculus of individual economic costs." Bell...
...loses its vote in the General Assembly. Though Haiti promptly paid its tardy $31,979 and Bolivia and Paraguay coughed up some $30,000 each after U Thant's blacklisting last week, the other 13 stand to lose their votes, and the issue has turned into a major tug-of-war between the U.S. and Russia, which owes the most: some $63 million...
...twinkle in your great-grandmother's eye, shiny-shoed college journalists were busily putting together that masterpiece of the communications world known as the Herald-Crimson. Neglecting their studies, they composed rondos on the summer's passing, analyzed the progress of the football, the baseball, and the tug of war teams, and conceded the success of the Harvard Annex, an "experiment entered into with fear and trembling...