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This is the kind of question Greene wants the audience to consider. If what he has produced here is "propaganda," then it is shrewd and subtle propaganda, for he does not club the audience over the head with 85 minutes of American "war crimes against the heroic struggling Vietnamese people." Though there are the inevitable bedside clips of women and children maimed by the bombing, the film is not calculated to elicit the audience's sympathy for the North Vietnamese under siege and attack so much as it means to show that American efforts to subdue this nation are futile...
...will be starting out blank ... nine councillors in search of a city manager," Mrs. Ackermann commented. She said it would require "heroic efforts on the part of four councillors not to feel left out" if only five councillors chose a new manager. She also called for a "gentlemen's agreement" by which councillors would agree not to meet with or discuss possible candidates for the job except with the entire council present...
...Lindbergh. The merits of our choice are frequently the subject of long and hot debate among readers and even among our own staff. Adding to the discussion about this year's highly controversial Man are certain to be some arguments centering on the cover itself. In his mock-heroic caricature, Artist David Levine depicted the President as King Lear, harassed by two vexatious members of his family, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Congressman Wilbur Mills, and comforted by a third, none other than his Vice President. Artist Levine, working with the editors, first thought of showing L.B.J...
...violating the "laws of war," as laid down by the Geneva Convention, and of discrediting the armed forces. He was thereupon demoted to private and ordered to forfeit two-thirds of his net pay for two months. In Passantino's case, the court took special note of his heroic war record and-though finding him guilty, like Pawlaczyk, of discrediting the armed forces -lifted the specific charge of committing a war crime. He was then demoted to specialist fourth class and fined two-thirds of his net pay for four months...
Technically, the title is wrong. Neither Wolf nor any one individual can be called "the man who saved Florence." But the consul's efforts were quietly heroic in limiting the damage. Aiming at something like Is Paris Burning?, a more exciting account of a threatened city, Author Tutaev, who is a specialist in Russian affairs living in England, sets down what he has unearthed with workaday, amateurish zeal. But the facts are eloquent enough. In 1955, Gerhard Wolf, Nazi, was made an honorary citizen of Florence and cited for "acts of incalculable courage, humanity, sense of brotherhood and Christian feeling...