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DARLING. A disenchanted look at a jet-set success story, in which Julie Christie finds the room at the top is always a bedroom -and often a bore...
Observers were also quick to warn that events in Indonesia bore little resemblance to events elsewhere. The Indonesian character is one that shies from reality, hesitates to push things to a conclusion, and has a positive genius for never resolving difficult problems. Whether Untung's coup represented a one-man aberration or was part of a faultily executed Communist plot remained to be seen...
Torchlight Serenade. It was Erhard's first independent campaign since he took over as Chancellor from Konrad Adenauer, and he scored an impressive personal victory over West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Observers had wondered whether Onkel Ludwig's earnest, professorial platform style might not bore the voters. As it turned out, they seemed to lap it up. On election night, 60 teen-agers dropped around to serenade him by the light of torches and a pale quarter-moon. The tune was his campaign song...
There is, moreover, a larger supply of these small-bore combatants. Since 1945 the nations of the world have almost doubled in number, from 68 to 127. Each new country has its own self-interest, its own power of decision and-thanks to the cold war and the resulting supplies of weapons and military training-its own armed forces. Alastair Buchan of London's Institute for Strategic Studies points out that there are more military men acting as political leaders than at any time in the 20th century." He cites Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Burma...
...there was still no progress on the Kashmir problem. Though dear to the hearts of all Pakistanis, it was a crashing bore to the U.N. and the world. Even worse, India was moving fast to end the fiction that there was even anything left to discuss. Nehru had announced in 1954 that Kashmir was an integral part of India but had done nothing to implement his words. Prime Minister Shastri was saying less but doing more. Early this year, he quietly let it be known that Indian civil servants would take over the state administration of Kashmir. To Pakistanis, this...