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...Cuban meets a group of Spaniards in a café in Madrid. Naturally, the topic of conversation is the Cuban fiasco. One of our Spaniards makes the following remark: "The luck we had during our civil war was that the few Americans that were fighting were on the Red side...
...stars, the tired and hungry traveler driving into Ukiah, Calif., with his family after eight hours on the road, can derive immense comfort from the knowledge that the two-starred Ukiah Travelodge offers a suite for $15 a night, with "crib, $1 ; cot, $2; TV free. Pool. Pets. Café adjacent. Self-serv. laundry four blks. Ck-out. 1 p.m. Patio." And just down Route 101, the one-starred House of Garner specializes in smorgasbord, with a special child's plate...
...lousy. His sideline was running the lucrative national lottery. But after ousting Strongman Pibulsonggram, Sarit went off the bottle and then to work, house-cleaning Thailand from top to bottom. In La Guardia fashion, he roams the streets, checking on police and garbage men, dropping in on sidewalk cafés for a chat, handing out fines for tossing fruit peelings on the street. He also likes to set himself up as a one-man prosecutor, judge and jury, has personally tried defendants accused of crimes ranging from Communist terrorism to arson. In many cases, his verdict is death...
...good deal of the picture is out-and-out sensationalism, smeared on with a heavy hand to attract the insects; and Fellini's selection of café society as a central symbol of evil is vulgar and naive...
...parishioner for his one decent meal of the week. Doing the pastor's laundry is a well-established parish chore. Priests in the south have been known to sleep in their churches for lack of lodgings, and some even make ends meet by operating movie halls or cafés as a sideline. In modern Italy, the priest who is trying to keep body, soul and parish together on less than $2 a day has made a crude anachronism of the ancient anticlerical caricature of the well-upholstered padre living off the fat of the land...