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...since 1965, when Abel defeated David McDonald by a gossamer 10,000 votes, has the contest for the 1.4 million-man union's top job been so embittered. Since last fall, when Sadlowski announced his candidacy (TIME, Sept. 20), both sides have traded vicious verbal blows, and sometimes physical ones: a Sadlowski volunteer was shot through the neck while handing out leaflets in Houston. The battle has spilled over into the courts. Three weeks ago, McBride filed a suit charging that Sadlowski had received illegal campaign contributions from employers in other industries; last week Sadlowski countered by filing...
...same period, though it was written by Graham Greene and directed by British director Carol Reed. Set in occupied Vienna immediately after World War II, The Third Man is by far the best thriller ever made. In the course of exploring two sides of the American character--vicious, anti-social instrumentality and unworldly innocence--Reed gets the best performance of Orson Welles's career. He uses his expressionistic camera techniques as well or better than Welles ever...
...your article on legitimized gambling [Dec. 6] and specifically state lotteries: the inefficiency of revenue collection is horrendous and the odds for winning are unconscionable. But the worst thing is that this is regressive taxation in its most vicious form...
...Charles Grodin as the leader of the expedition that starts out looking for oil and ends up with this large, furry problem on its hands. Grodin plays the honcho as a hard-bailer of the sort that used to hang around the Nixon White House and creates a vicious, accurate parody of one of our more distressing contemporary types. The other is, of course, by that combination of men and machinery that create the Mighty Kong. The expressive range they have provided for him is far wider than that of any previous movie monster. Damned if one doesn...
...Radcliffe frustration came to painfully vicious full circle. The Bentley offense kept on breaking through and the weakened Radcliffe defense could do nothing. In all, a total of 20 fouls were committed by the Crimson, a season's record...