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...week on the multistarred, action-crammed production. Mission will ultimately be a moneymaker-but only after it goes off network and the studio is then allowed to syndicate second and subsequent rerun rights. Thus, though the show may well be renewed, its producers would probably not grieve overmuch if it should selfdestruct...
Finally, on the debit side, the film's construction depends overmuch on cross-cutting between Bobby and scenes of Byron Orlock, an aging actor determined to retire, beautifully played by Boris Karloff. We learn early that there is going to be a confrontation of the two at a drive-in, and tend to want to get it over with once the set-up has been established. To some extent, this is suspense generated slickly by Bogdanovich, but mostly it's irritation at having to wade through tentative cross-cutting toward a climax...
...than anyone else it is they who have been in office, in power at the time of, and in large measure presided over the onset both of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities. These things may not be our fault, but in a world not overmuch given to nice distinctions in such matters, they most surely must be judged our doing...
...personal friend of the Shah, had come to power in the awkward period in 1962 when there was no Majlis (parliament), and the Shah ruled by decree. Mansur, representing the majority New Iran Party in today's Majlis, has a solid political base. Alam will not suffer overmuch; he becomes guardian of the Shah's son, three-year-old Crown Prince Reza, and president of Pahlevi University in Shiraz...
...considerations confronts the President and his advisers. Not the least of course are three problems which do not admit of ready quantification for computer solution: leukemia, monstrous births, and bone cancer. Mr. Rockefeller does not mention these problems. Indeed, one has the feeling that Mr. Rockefeller does not think overmuch about them. Geneticists, after all, do not agree...