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Although the Rusk letter, if anything, only alienated the students with its simplistic and worn-out arguments, the organizers of the letter were puzzled as to what tactic to try next...
Dean Rusk should not suppose that he can use the leaders to show how doubters may be converted to believers with a balanced dose of expertise and banality. His most recent response to their questions was almost pathetic in its reliance on worn-out shells of ideas. There may be "no shadow of doubt" in the Secretary's mind about our present policy; but his vague recitation of the perils of Munich, the binding legality of our Treaty commitments and the duplicity of the Viet Cong will not answer the serious questions of these students...
...Though there is room for improvement in cars, there's not much that present models won't do in the hands of educated, courteous drivers on roads not cluttered with "booby traps," governed by horse-and-buggy regulations or filled with drivers in worn-out cars who consider driving a right rather than a privilege. The good Senator Ribicoff [March 25] should try a few laps in the Hartford cross-town competition some cold, rainy night-Sebring is safer...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Espionage made grim, grey and as engrossing as it was in John le Carré's novel, with Richard Burton perfectly cast as the worn-out British Intelligence hack on a fateful mission behind the Berlin Wall...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Director Martin Ritt (Hud) has made John le Carré's novel into a masterly spy thriller, with Richard Burton giving his best movie performance as the worn-out British intelligence hack on a fateful mission...