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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pride and Persuasion. Yet sometimes this understatement became a form of intellectual pride. Persuasion was somehow beneath him. Talking to delegates uncertain about his position on Viet Nam, he would say: "I've written three books on my positions" or "I put out a position paper on that last week." Though he needed Negro support, he refused to make any special pleas, noting airily that "when the Negroes know my record, they'll come along." They never did. He yearned for the support of César Chávez, a Bobby Kennedy supporter and leader of California...
...System. South Vietnamese legal experts are also at work revising outmoded civil and criminal codes. Particularly confusing is a dual legal system inherited from the French. One group of laws was created for the central part of the country, which was administered by the Viet emperor; other laws were written for Cochin China in the south, which was an outright colony controlled by the French governor. The differing legal standards are still applied today. Fornication, for example, was made a crime in central Viet Nam, reflecting strict Confucian traditions. No such statutes are in effect in the sophisticated south, where...
...GOODBYE PEOPLE, with Milton Berle. Written and directed by Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns). Berle is a 72-year-old concessionaire who dreams of reopening his boardwalk frankfurter stand...
Despite its failings, Rachel, Rachel has several unassailable assets. The spiderweb score, written by Jerome Moross with the cooperation of Erik Satie and Robert Schumann, is the best of the year. Estelle Parsons, as Rachel's fellow schoolteacher, and Frank Corsaro, as a friendly neighborhood mortician, extend their roles beyond the boundaries of the movie...
...their terror, such weapons are not the most frightening in the armory of the future. A new book titled Unless Peace Comes (Viking; $5.75), written by 16 scientists and scholars from six different countries, contends that man may soon be able to hurl nature itself at his foes. He could flood coastal cities with tidal waves and unleash uncontrollable hurricanes and earthquakes. A well-aimed, chemical-tipped rocket could puncture the atmosphere's ozone shield, loosing a flood of ultraviolet rays that would eventually kill all exposed life below...