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...sound track helps the already clever satire. There's not too much button-popping pride left in you when you hear "America, the Beautiful" again at the end. Most of the little parodies (like the Air Force officers who are worried about "the pinko prevert influence") come off well. Some individual scenes are truly memorable; director Tony Richardson has made Mom Joyboy's eating scene overshadow Tom Jones...
...voting [Dec. 10] was directly to the mark. As the staff director of the President's Committee on Registration and Voting, I was shocked to find that while apathy is a major cause of nonvoting, election laws written when buggy whips were a big industry and high-button shoes the latest style are the major block. The fact is, we are shortly going to have 100 million Americans attempting to register and vote. Our procedures and practices simply are not up to that number, and revision must take place -and soon...
...economic problems. The country has run up a foreign debt of nearly $3 billion, and the gap between exports and imports has widened to a record $500 million for 1965. "We are facing difficulties," Nasser conceded. "We must all work harder and make sacrifices. I have no magic button that I can push to produce the things you want...
Show of Force. Lacking a magic button to push, Nasser has done the next best thing. The new Premier whom he appointed last September to replace left-leaning Ali Sabry has begun a reform of Egypt's stagnant economy, and Nasser has so far given him full support. To increase government revenue, Premier Zakaria Mohieddin has sharply raised Egypt's inadequate personal income tax and has added a "defense tax" on all sales to help defray military costs. He has jacked up tariffs on nonessential imports to save foreign exchange. He has also hiked the cost of luxury...
...that is going to change, said Mobutu, and it suddenly became clear why he wore no tunic. Pop went the button on one shirt cuff as he told the Congolese to "roll up your sleeves, strip off your ties and get to work." Pop went the button on his other cuff as his bug-eyed audience began to realize that he meant them to follow suit. "Roll 'em up," Mobutu called to the uproarious crowd. "You too!" he shouted to his assembled Cabinet ministers, who sheepishly followed orders...