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M.I.T. features a 4-2-4 allignment, meaning that there will always be at least six Techmen on defense. "But we've finally developed the finesse and teamwork to score," Munro said Yesterday, "and the M.I.T set-up shouldn't bother us too much. It should bother them more. It means that they will have one less forward on the attack, which could cut deeply into their offense...
...chart. Unlike Mrs. Hicks' picnic-like celebration, where there was plenty of liquor and no charts, White's headquarters were marked by an exuberant but businesslike atmosphere. Returns from each precinct were carefully tabulated; charts showing the relative strength of each candidate in each important city district were being set-up and studied. There was no orchestra; there were no bars, no ham sandwiches, no sweet gerkin pickles, no chocolate cake for White's campaign workers--lawyers, teachers, students, high state officials...
...welfare recipients go to work, many cities dock their welfare payments by the amount of their earnings, thus destroying the incentive to work. New York plans to allow welfare recipients to keep the first $85 of earnings, 30% of the remainder. Sviridoff suggests a thorough reorganization of the educational set-up that would break huge city school systems (New York, for example, currently enrolls 1,100,000 students) into "small, more manageable units" of 10,000 to 20,000 children each...
...film-making in A Countess from Hong Kong is highly sophisticated; the editing has great direction and force, each cut timed to convey degrees of humor, and establish patterns and rhythms to which he can subtly refer in later scenes. Frequently he win cut back to a camera set-up used in a previous scene anticipating the recurrence of a running joke or device. Like John Ford, Chaplin juggles emotional quantities with great dexterity, mixing elements of laughter, romance, and suspense in single short scenes; much of this is brilliantly achieved simply by varying the speed of the camera panning...
...extremely friendly to the Japanese on principle--which is nice psychologically for the Japanese--but things remain only on a simple level. We have no strong economic and cultural ties as the French retain in that area. Nor were we participants of the Geneva Convention that constructed the peace set-up in 1954 for Southeastern Asia. We have a relationship with Communist China, but it is not so close as to permit us to exert any influence upon them. We have a good relationship with the Soviet Union, but not as close as our American one. Though Japan is frequently...