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Development of characters, by tracing their psychological and environmental background, seems to be director John Huston's central aim. The Asphalt Jungle, like its descendants, has no intricate plot. The emphasis must fall on the characters' past and how they react to the strain of the monumental crime they commit. Huston succeeds with some of his players and fails with others. The realism he tries to create is ofen shattered by weak dialogue and an implausible story. He has not mastered startling photographic technique. When these attempts at effect fail to divert attention from the stupid, simple plot, the suspense...
...Stragglers. The whole idea of "extending prosperity" to the farm, i.e., taking quick, corrective action to get all the good graph lines rising together-epitomizes Government's new role in the expanding economy. Harry Truman's Agriculture Department rushed to defend the farmer, was willing to commit him to eternal Government control in protecting farm income. Eisenhower, as the report shows it, sees the farmer as a blameless straggler in the general march to prosperity. Ike wants to get him back in line as soon as possible so that the farmer can march up the graph lines with...
...Total cost will be $1.3 billion. Egypt will pay about $900 million. The World Bank will probably put up some $200 million, most of which it will try to pass along to private capital. But the bank cannot commit this kind of money unless it is sure that the U.S. (plus Britain) will put up the remainder and stick with the project until the dam is completed...
...said he "sees no harm in a five year trial period." (In the last seven years the death penalty has never been carried out.) "Almost invariably states without capital punishment have lower rates of murder," he said, "but there are thousands of variable factors that cause a person to commit murder...
...this series of rebellious offshoot, "i.e., the Cambridge Review," was started last year by Leo Raditsa, who had become irritated by the apathy toward new ideas which prevailed in the Advocate. Raditsa feels that none of its members will assume any intellectual "responsibility," that is, the board will commit itself to no opinion nor does it attempt to find what is really new in intellectual and literary currents. Thus, by sticking exclusively to its present aim--to develop undergraduate craftsmen--the Advocate has shirked its responsibility as a publication...