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...ballad that inspired it. The Virgin Spring is a myth, and as a myth it is treated in this film. Bergman's style, usually subtle and allusive, is startlingly simple. The script, written under Bergman's supervision by Novelist Ulla Isaksson, who also did the screenplay for Brink of Life, is as clear and grave as a Mass. The actors, as always finely disciplined by Bergman, behave as formally as acolytes. The photography is as beautiful as it generally is in Bergman's pictures, but if anything more plain-there are very few cute shots to catch...
...zinc processing plant, where 80% of Kellogg's breadwinners earn their livelihood, has been shut by a strike since last May. More than 2,000 wage earners are out of work; the town is going broke, its population bleeding away to find other jobs elsewhere. On the brink of winter last week, negotiations for a settlement came to an abrupt, bitter halt...
...most of his associates date his emergence as a bona fide liberal-and probably as a presidential aspirant-to the years 1955-56. His serious 1954 operation to correct a wartime back injury-double fusion of spinal discs, with complications from Addison's disease-brought Kennedy to the brink of death; last rites of the Catholic Church were pronounced. In the long months of convalescence, he had opportunity to contemplate his political fu ture. (Wife Jacqueline Kennedy rejects the theory that this was his moment of political truth: "That way you can sort of tie it up with Campobello...
...October 1 the Panzer divisions rolled into the Czech Sudation land. Anxious to see for himself a continent on the brink of war, Kennedy received permission to spend the Spring term in Europe. Staying at American embassies, he chatted with politicians and citizens in Poland, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, the Balkans, Berlin, and Paris...
...catalogue of Soviet might that followed, Khrushchev let drop the only surprise of his speech. He accused the U.S. of "brink of war" policy for planning to send rocket submarines near the Russian coast and added: "The American generals and admirals cannot but know that our country also has submarines equipped with atomic engines and armed with rockets." U.S. experts took note of Russia's first claim to nuclear sub capacity and were inclined to believe Khrushchev. Best estimates are that Russian subs have only short-range rockets fired from the surface, still have nothing comparable...