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...Options. Against this complex enemy, what are the U.S. choices? Despite Charles de Gaulle's belief that the U.S. and China are a pair of rigid giants locked in relentless struggle, the actions available are both multiple and mutable...
...fish-and-flour warehouse as studio, paid rent of a mere $120 a month. And he didn't have to fabricate a medieval cobbled-street market, a walled village, or a 12th century Romanesque castle: all were within kilometers of his set. Which left most of his rigid $1,000,000 budget for casting, and he could hardly have made it pay better, signing on Jeanne Moreau as Dolly Tearsheet, Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, and even Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Quickly. One other area where Welles didn't cut down: gluttony, which left him hospitalized after...
...Vague. Businessmen were clearly relieved that the program was not tougher. "I was pleased," said David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, "that a voluntary approach was taken rather than a resort to rigid capital controls." Still, many businessmen found the program too vague, felt that it would be hard to expect voluntary restraint on investments abroad without firmer guidelines. Michael McCarthy, chairman of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, suggested that the Government induce U.S. businessmen to bring more of their profits home by slashing the current 48% tax rate on such profits to the capital-gains level...
...debate. In Britain that conflict has already been resolved in favor of the defendant. Once a suspect has been arrested and charged with a crime, newspaper accounts are largely confined to testimony at his trial. Now the new Labor government has announced its intent to make the restrictions more rigid than ever...
Demanding & Rigid. Discipline at Colorado Springs is regarded as even more demanding and rigid than at the other academies, largely because of the junior service's desire for instant excellence. Air Force graduates have won nine Rhodes scholarships, seven National Science Foundation grants and six Fulbright awards. But another result of the academic and disciplinary pressure is the dropout rate, which is considerably higher than at the other military schools. Two years ago, 93 cadets resigned in a mass protest against certain rules; in 1964, another 90 tried to withdraw for reasons never made public...