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Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
...first hour of a big story, a wire-service reporter's zeal and television's vivid eye often provide the best witnesses of the event. But then come the consequences-not so easy to photograph or to flash as a bulletin. Any confrontation so major as the Cuban crisis leaves behind it an international trail of responses, regrets and reappraisals. Sometimes these become the most lasting effect of the event, as peoples and their leaders take new account of the shifting forces, and respond accordingly...
...kept so busy cremating bodies in a special incinerator he had devised that he had been able to take off only two days for his honeymoon. Following Harder's testimony, the judges cleared the court of school-age children, apparently on the theory that they were getting too vivid a picture of Nazi horror...
Many military writers have tried to explain the Battle of Salerno, among them Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison and the battle commander, Mark Clark. But this book by Hugh Pond, former military correspondent of the London Daily Express, reconstructs the nine-day battle in all its vivid and confused detail...
...Vast Difference. The contrast between the Communist record and the U.S. record since 1945 is vivid enough for all to see who are willing to see it. The U.S., as President Kennedy said in his speech announcing the blockade, has demonstrated that it has "no desire to dominate or conquer any other nation." In contrast, Russia has established puppet regimes by force of arms in Eastern Europe; its attempts to conquer and dominate in Greece, Turkey, Southeast Asia and elsewhere have been thwarted only because U.S. military power, including U.S. bases overseas, has stood in the way. The U.S. bases...