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...well-meaning people in the U.S. took us to task for publishing in South America the same news stories we distributed at home. They felt that in the interest of hemispheric unity TIME Air Express should sugar-coat its stories about the U.S. and print only "diplomatic" (i.e., bland and friendly) news about the republics to the south...
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What has the committee accomplished? To those who never believe anything until they see it on television, it has shown the new, bland face of igsi's overlords of crime. It has stirred up local crimebusters, lit at least a flash fire under many a city police department...
...Blue Lamp (Ealing Studios; Eagle Lion Classics), a touted import, is a bland, semi-documentary melodrama in praise of the London police. The picture's excitement runs thin compared with the better Hollywood cops & robbers product, and its humor is as heavy as plum pudding, but U.S. moviegoers may be diverted by its foreign flavor...
Last week President Peron ordered a pardon for Balbin because "a definitive sentence [had] not yet been pronounced" on him. With these bland words, Peron disarmed his critics. Balbin went to his home. But the law of desacato (disrespect for public officials), under which Balbin had been sent to jail, remained very much in effect...