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...route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push...
...works. When he succeeded his longtime friend last year, Woods recognized that the bank had undergone its own form of population explosion; it now numbers among its 101 members many who need education and improved agriculture more than dams or steel mills. Woods convinced his directors that they should unbend and consent to bankroll such unaccustomed projects as schools and farms. Annual loan totals, as a result, have soared from $646 million in 1962 to $788 million last year, and the bank's 1963 earnings reached a record of $89 million. Now Woods reads his latest progress reports...
Author Pogue writes with grave admiration but indicates that behind the soldier's icy reserve was a capacity for friendliness sometimes oddly revealed. Marshall liked to unbend with practical jokes, once took the trouble to steal his adjutant's watch just so he could solemnly present it back to him at a formal awards ceremony. Before marrying his second wife (his first wife had died) Marshall drove her home from a dinner but deliberately took an hour doing it. When she remarked that he must be lost, Marshall replied: Quite the contrary. If he did not know...
Last week, in the hope that Russia might unbend to admit Americans to forbidden Soviet cities, among them Vladivostok and Sevastopol, the U.S. decided to allow any Russian tourist who could scrape up the kopecks to enter such once barred territory as the state of Massachusetts, most of Tennessee, and the cities of St. Louis, San Diego and Las Vegas. But the 400-odd Soviet diplomats and journalists in the U.S. will still be confined to the environs of New York City and Washington, D.C., just as their U.S. counterparts are still ordinarily confined to a few Russian cities...
...those in command of American foreign policy, Kissinger has a valuable message: "The West must have much more positive goals than to divine Soviet intent." We must unbend from our defensive diplomatic position, adopt a course aimed at implementing specific aims, especially in Africa and Asia, and not exhaust all our ideas in containment of the Soviets, "As the strongest and most cohesive nation in the free world," Kissinger states, "we have an obligation to lead and not simply depend on the course of events...