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...strikers, as stubborn and high-spirited a bunch as ever hit the bricks, did not, of course, concede defeat. Despite the overwhelming Government pressure, they continued to picket airports from LGA (La Guardia) to LAX (Los Angeles International), rallying behind their bearded, owlish-looking president Robert E. Poli in an unusual show of solidarity. Poli, 44, a former controller himself, called the Administration's actions "the most blatant form of union-busting I have ever seen." Vowed he: "It will not end the strike...
...father Robert Runkle: "As far as we are concerned, the speculations about her state of mind are strictly a smokescreen. Her being depressed just doesn't make sense." Runkle's funeral was Thursday. Campo did not attend. Said he: "I'll send her a bunch of flowers...
...with an internal logic that, while it may look like ours, fundamentally has nothing to do with ours. Why, one wonders is Bladkov's Cement--the quintessential work of socialist realism (which contains such gastronomical metaphors as: "The sea was like boiling milk")--taken more seriously than a bunch of grabby kids having breakfast and scteasming "Leggo my Eggo" from the television? It's the same sort of fanciful persiflage...
...much broader, proposed CIA operation-one that did not involve physical attacks on any national leader-to shore up U.S. interests in the Middle East and North Africa. This hasty scheme reinforced Goldwater's view that, according to one Senator, "he just couldn't stand watching a bunch of amateurs running things...
...full of the splendid physical comedy that is Director Edwards' specialty. And besides, most of the movie types he so viciously caricatures are portrayed with high, vile spirits by the likes of Robert Preston, Larry Hagman, Robert Vaughn and Robert Webber, the meanest-looking crew since the Wild Bunch bit the dust. Edwards occasionally strays too far inside for his own good, lapsing from parodies of bad taste into the genuine article. But his work has pace and the courage of bleak convictions, not just about movie people, but the human race in general. In the end, one cannot...