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Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam play the leading hijackers; Walter Matthau is a lieutenant in the Transit Police who helps undo them. Each of these gentlemen - indeed, the entire cast - at tacks his role by affecting the slightly petulant boredom of a commuter with nothing to read. They seem to rouse themselves only for the wisecracks...
...necessary." Ransom would permit covert actions only when U.S. security is clearly in jeopardy. William T.R. Fox, professor of international relations at Columbia University, would additionally permit them "to undo the spread of Hitler and other like governments." Dean Harvey Picker of Columbia's School of International Affairs would allow clandestine operations to prevent nuclear war. As Senator Church points out, however, the "national security considerations must be compelling" for covert action to be justified. For his part, Colby declines to say under what precise circumstances he would favor covert action...
...work together cooperatively. But I hope after a serious review that we should have the strength of character to dissolve ourselves if that's the best way or, of course, not to if that's best. The difficult part is implementing the idea of equality. You can't undo centuries of attitudes overnight...
...ruling will not undo the merger. But if it is upheld by the federal courts to which an appeal will almost certainly be taken, it could cost ITT $35 million -one estimate of unpaid taxes owed on the deal. Although those taxes are due from the former shareholders of Hartford, ITT has pledged to reimburse them for any money they have to cough...
...party floor leader is to be the cutting edge of the Democratic program in the House. But he is keenly aware that the validity of the impeachment process would be destroyed by partisanship, by permitting Nixon's charge that it is a Democratic effort to undo the Nixon mandate of 1972 to become true-or even seem to be true. He is determined that the issue of Nixon's guilt or innocence of presidential wrongdoing shall, so far as possible, be the only issue...