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Communists & Calendar. The man who has to do the job is Premier Ngo Dinh Diem,† a resilient, deeply religious Vietnamese nationalist who is burdened with the terrible but challenging task of leading the 10.5 million people of South Viet Nam from the brink of Communism into their long-sought state of sovereign independence. No man in troubled Asia is confronted by more obstacles on the road to order and justice. The sects, in control of a third of the southern portion of the country, threaten not only his control but his life. The refugees from the Communist half...
...Bridges to Cross earns a profit, it will make its subject--the $2,500,000 Brink's robbery--look like petit larceny. The film's chances for financial success are limited, however, since it appeals mainly to Bostonians wanting to see some familiar scenes and to the robbery's original cast wanting to see some unfamiliar and ludicrously phoney ones. The Boston scenes, by the way, are real, for the Universal people were not satisfied with a cardboard Common. Unfortunately, however, they were perfectly satisfied with cardboard characterization and plot...
...Honduras (pop. 1,600,000), where the invaders of Guatemala gathered last spring, is a banana republic with too few bananas (because of storms). It is pulling back, under a dictator, from the brink of a revolution that threatened when no candidate got a majority in a three-way election (TIME, Dec. 20). Thus distracted, Honduras let some of last week's invaders of Costa Rica gather there and move on to Nicaragua...
...STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLS. VII-X, by Arnold Toynbee, brought to an end the most massive and controver sial historical inquiry since Spengler. It saw the West in a time of troubles, on the brink of becoming part of a world state, and ended by affirming that man can control his earthly destiny, but only by earning the grace...
That safety looked increasingly imposing when the Elis moved 53 yards for a touchdown at the start of the third period. A 28-yard pass from Bob Brink to Al Ward set up the score, and a short flip from Brink to Campbell accounted...