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...swiftly as they appeared, the Viet Cong vanish. The regulars slip into the jungle, taking with them the prisoners, guns, munitions and medical supplies they have captured. The popular forces vanish, too, going back to their villages and resuming the role of ignorant peasants who have seen nothing and heard nothing. The regional troops remain long enough to cover the withdrawal by ambushing rescue columns, mining the roads, littering the jungle trails and footpaths with concealed and deadly panjis-sharpened, poisoned bamboo spikes that stab through the soles of unwary pursuers...
Last names vanish: Arlene Francis Kazanjian, Maybritt Wilkens, Eddie Albert Heimberger. Some stars can't stand their first names. Leslie Hope and Harry Crosby went for a solid Bob and a charming, chiming Bing...
...play of ideas when it only toys with ideas. Overlooking the fact that it takes two to make dialogue but only one to make war, Romulus clings to the naively optimistic argument that if only opposing parties will sit around a table and talk, the threat of war will vanish from the world. Another of the play's shallower notions is that the present is an isolated moment in time, and somehow contains within itself the principles of sound action. Yet wise policy must proceed from a knowledge of the past coupled with plans and hopes for the future...
...Doctors Hospital, a sharp-eyed photographer saw beyond her heavy oxfords, asked her to pose. Part of Dolores' sudden rise to the" top was her resemblance to Jackie Kennedy. Now she makes $50 an hour ($10 less than most top models, a difference that will probably vanish with her first big cover), is called by Photographer Milton Greene "the newest, most dewy-eyed model this year," has blue eyes, brown hair and too much figure. "I'm made to wear a flattening bra," she sighs. "Otherwise, I take away from the dress...
...doublethink of Communism, continues Tertz, has even more ominous overtones : "So that prisons should vanish forever, we built new prisons. So that all frontiers should fall, we surrounded ourselves with a Chinese Wall. So that work should become a rest and a pleasure, we introduced forced labor. So that not one drop of blood should be shed any more, we killed and killed and killed...