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...inform startled newsmen that he had filled two other major vacancies in the State Department. For the No. 3 job, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Johnson had selected Eugene Victor Debs Rostow, 53, former dean of the Yale Law School, who is the elder brother of Walt Whitman Rostow, the top White House foreign affairs adviser; Gene Rostow succeeds Thomas Mann, who resigned in June...
...Roger Vadim's version of Zola's Alexandre, impressed most critics as little more than a soap bubble around his wife Jane Fonda. The U.S., displaying more invention than intelligence, came up with Chappaqua, a booze-and-drug Upanishad displaying Allen Ginsberg, the poor man's Whitman. The festival scene had become such a cluttered junkyard that Count Giovanni Volpi, son of the competition's originator, disowned the whole thing with the melancholy statement: "The hopes of Venice are again deluded...
...National Rifle Association, a 750,000-member organization that spends perhaps $2,000,000 a year pushing its official line in pamphlets, pressure on Congress, gun-magazine advertisements and its own publication The American Rifleman. In the face of renewed clamoring for congressional gun control action, spurred by Charles Whitman's recent sniper rampage in Austin, Texas, the N.R.A. last week turned for a change to newspapers, buying full-page spreads in the Washington Post and the New York Times, both of which have editorialized vigorously for stronger gun laws. Over the legend, "America needs more straight shooters...
...ardent-arrant attempt to reset Crime and Punishment in contemporary America, substituting for Raskolnikov a sort of Supernorman. Censoring both the author's ideas and his scatological eloquence, the film script turns the story into a cliche-stocked, ho-humdrum thriller about a TV star (Stuart Whitman) who murders his rich-bitch wife (Eleanor Parker) in Reel Two, and for the next 80 minutes is dogged doomward by the police (Barry Sullivan), his wife's father (Lloyd Nolan), a former mistress (Janet Leigh), and his own conscience. The few amusing moments are provided by Actor Whitman, a young...
...daresay that most of the whites who fear "the high incidence of crime and violence in the black ghettos" would not have been alarmed had respectable, middle-class white families named Speck or Whitman moved in next door last June. This summer's headlines suggest that perhaps we crime-fearing white men had better investigate the violence in white souls before looking for it in black streets...