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...once again prove that they can develop acceptable. If not quite plausible characters ex nihilo. It is a shame that actors like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda should get saddled with parts like these. That they carry it off and breathe a little life into what might other wise be an inert pile of celluloid only suggests that their lustrous reputations are well-deserved Perhaps I am the sucker the real sentimentalist for letting those two familiar septuagenarian faces get to me. But it seems, simply, that here are two people who can act and act well, even...
...stage attacks simultaneously in every important South Vietnamese city, and in any case went on fighting for some time thereafter. What the documentary failed to mention, however, was that the illogic of Westmoreland's math was known to the White House at the time. At a meeting of the "Wise Old Men," brought together to consider the implications of Tet in March 1968, former U.N. ambassador Arthur Goldberg pointed out the impossibility of the army's figures. U.S. leaders knew the information behind their Vietnam strategy was riddled with inconsistencies but chose to overlook their gloomy implications. So the battle...
...Wise Wall Street hands urge the unsophisticated to stay out of this part of the market. Says Oppenheimer & Co. Vice President Stephen Kennard: "This business is absolutely unsuitable for the little investor." Arbitrager Jeff Tarr, the managing partner of Junction Partners, says he is concerned about arbitrage's future profitability now that so many unsuspecting investors believe that the field is "sexy." Says he: "The history of Wall Street is that when anything gets sexy like this, you should sell it short. Generally, when something is written up publicly, you lose money...
conciliation abroad in wise portions. Failing that, he says, "we can become irrelevant in just a few months' time." Public television's Scholar-Author Ben Wattenberg, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise...
...naturalist and a novelist take wise, winning looks at existence...