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Starts Sunday: The Motion Picture Academy chose Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING for its best foreign film award four nights back, and the Academy will doubtless receive the pleased applause of the N.Y. Times, the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Saturday Review, Time, Cue, Newsweek and the N.Y. Daily News, all of which oracles found the movie "one of the year's best." In Point of fact, The Virgin Spring is one of Bergman's least successful films: its is cloyingly medieval, pointlessly sadistic, ambiguously surrealistic. Evngs...
...Doubtless the Communist rebels would secure a substantial voice in the future Laotian government, might well be able to win over the country the slower but safer way-without firing a shot. The optimists in the State Department said that all the West really needs to hold is the Southern crest of Laos that buffers Thailand and South Viet Nam from Communism. Pessimists, and there were many, feared that the magnetism of Communism would soon pull over any "neutral" Laos...
...object solemnly, and doubtless fruitlessly, to the widespread assumption that the principles and proposals of Barry Goldwater are the essence of American conservatism...
Already the seeds of Communism had been sown in Laos, and they would doubtless sprout and grow during any drawn-out peace conference. But in the long perspective of the battle for Southeast Asia, the Laotian showdown could sow important seeds of its own. The President had faced up to the crisis with great coolness and style. He was newly familiar with the face of the enemy on the battle line, and newly familiar with the weapons at his command. In leading an attack on free Asia, Nikita Khrushchev also contributed to the seasoning of the West's cold...
Congress was cool to several parts of the Kennedy program. Kennedy should have little trouble in putting the mixed bag of U.S. aid agencies under a single head. And cold war crises will doubtless warm up support for the President's request for $4 billion for fiscal 1962. But Congress will be reluctant to authorize long-term loans and to relinquish its own year-to-year grasp on the purse strings. "If we don't get it," said the President at his press conference, "I think we'll continue to see some of the drift...