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...criticism that could be made about this film is that there is almost too much fun and laughter involved each second. Where each segment or individual sequence could be really sidesplitting by itself, the whole series gives the audience too much to take at once. Just the same, this film, pieced together from the past, is a welcome and very enjoyable evening's entertainment...
...massacre. Weeks ago, Harold Macmillan had concluded from the Tories' disquieting series of election reverses that Britain did not want a change of party so much as a change within the party. Cobwebbed Conservative policies and lackluster leaders have succeeded in alienating a large segment of the young, middle-class voters who swept the party into office eleven years ago in response to the forward-looking policies that were dubbed "pink Toryism." To woo them back, Macmillan plucked from his front and back benches a clutch of European-minded, relatively young M.P.s (the Cabinet's average...
...series called The Eleventh Hour (NBC), Wendell Corey will become TV's first weekly psychiatrist, having analyzed already the remarkable 1961-62 success of Drs. Casey and Kildare (both returning, of course). There will be a program called The Nurses on CBS and, perhaps to satisfy a large segment of the mass audience, a new show about a veterinarian (NBC). Its cast includes all sorts of known animals and two unknown actors named Josh Peine and John Hubbard...
...then allowing himself to be publicly prodded into doing what he planned all along. The best example was his strategy in ordering a renewal of U.S. nuclear testing: he made up his mind to test after the Russian blasts began, then waited to announce U.S. resumption until almost every segment of the nation was behind his decision. Last week it seemed to many in Washington that he was applying the same strategy to a tax cut. The theory was strong, among his advisers and others, that he has already decided that taxes should be cut to spur the economy...
...American colleges and universities have provided higher education for a larger segment of society than any other civilization past or present. But in so doing, the education "accommodates itself to lower capacities and loses its character, or it maintains its character and subjects a growing number of students to pointless failure...