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...billion anti-infiltration barrier across the 17th parallel. McNamara is understood to have though that the success of this device--yet to go into operation--might have obviated the need for air raids into the North. But the pro-bombing generals insisted that it would be ineffectual, and would commit large numbers of troops to stand guard at the border. Since McNamara is now leaving, there is some doubt that the controversial barrier will ever go into operation. In any case, whatever action is taken in the next few months will provide some criteria for judging the impact of McNamara...
...this same capacity to commit American forces quickly to developing crises made it that much easier for President Johnson to escalate the Vietnam war in 1965 without sustaining immediate political and economic costs at home. The gnawing question remains: was McNamara so effective in making American forces immediately responsive to war that he removed our military operations from popular scrutiny...
...ladies and tuxedoed gentlemen enter a mansion, regale themselves at supper, and retire to the sitting room. They're still in it a few days later. The door is open, no monsters lurk nearby, but half-crazed voices keep repeating--We can't escape! Before they do, two lovers commit suicide in a closet and everybody alternates between morphine peace and nightmares. The characters choose hell over free exit...
Most people, when they feel autobiographical urges, sit down and commit their story to the typewriter, or just talk to the wife, a bartender or a psychiatrist. Not Conrad Rooks. He decided to make a movie about himself. The result is Chappaqua, named after the Westchester County commuters' village where Rooks spent what he considers the only happy years of his youth (from 8 to 13). The film is an 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...
However, Rudolph refused to commit himself on the resumption of the old traffic pattern in the immediate Harvard-Brattle Square area. He conceded that "from four o six, there's a mess in Harvard Square," but said, "the pattern will operate much better when the tunnel is is opened...