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...Paris city council counterproposed: "Paint Sacré-Coeur black instead." Notre-Dame may yet remain the great unwashed building, since architects fear that its 800-year-old lacy filigree would crumble. The pro-blacks argue that character, dignity and age are lost by cleaning. Sputters one irreconcilable rear-guardist: "It is immoral, like face lifting. Old people shouldn't look young...
...book. The Conscience of a Conservative (Victor; $3), Goldwater sets down what he thinks 1960's U.S. conservatives should stand for. He thoroughly belies the U.S. liberals' caricature-belief that an Old Guardist is a deep-dyed isolationist endowed with nothing but penny-pinching inhumanity and slavish devotion to Big Business. He calls for a U.S. drive to win the cold war, including liberation of the Communist satellites, outlines a creed of social and economic philosophy that both Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson could ratify. Planks in Goldwater's platform...
...find in defeat a new cohesion that will let them exploit Democratic splits. Ailing Joe Martin of Massachusetts will probably hand more of the House minority leader's power over to quick-moving Ikeman Charlie Halleck of Indiana; the Senate's probable new Republican leader, Old Guardist-turned-Ikeman Everett Dirksen of Illinois, will doubtless be a much smoother operator than bumbling ex-Minority Leader Bill Knowland...
Agent Donat arrives by parachute, spends a few minutes disguised as a Rumanian peasant, then transforms himself into Tartu, a Rumanian Iron Guardist, reeking with pomade, corny gallantries and devotion to the New Order...
...darling of several Nazi big shots, by an incisively cast crowd of Nazis, saboteurs and undergrounders, and by pacing as shrewdly varied as that of a roller coaster. Miss Hobson, besides being a sensible actress, is one cinemactress who can really be described as beautiful. As the gigolesque Iron Guardist, rococo Robert Donat turns in one of the best performances of his career. All Tartu needs, to be a classic of its kind, is the sort of razor-edged melodramatic and psychological inventiveness which belongs to Alfred Hitchcock in strict monopoly and has been conferred on a very...