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...which become a morass of mud during the rainy season, beginning in May. Communications facilities are virtually nonexistent, and jungle trails suffice for railroads. The patchwork of mountains and jungles makes tanks about as useful there as they would be atop Mount Everest; it is guerrilla country, and the shrewd Communist Pathet Lao fighters play it that...
...plot is self-consciously biblical (Steinbeck gives Old Testament names to almost every one of his characters), and it is peopled with stereotypes (the gruff-but-kindly sheriff the shrewd-but-kindly businessman, and even the wicked-and-abandoned-but-kindly prostitute. The structure is as simple and as unenticing: hostile, alienated, confused James Dean battles a pacifist, puritanical brother for the blessing of the patriarchal father (Raymond Massey) and the affections of the brother's girl (Julie Harris). It's a wonder the film has any merit...
...then the book carries echoes of Lucky Jim's brattish humor, and Author Amis remains a shrewd, accurate observer of what sociologists call courtship patterns. He also has a message of sorts. After a particularly hectic session, Patrick tells Jenny bitterly that there are two kinds of men these days, the sort who despoil maidens as often as possible and the sort who have no desire to do so. The kind who wanted to but waited, he says, died...
Last week's policy switch also represents a sharp about-face for William McChesney Martin, 54, the shrewd, conservative chairman of the FRB. During World War II and the early postwar years, the Fed was little more than the Treasury's valet, pegging bond prices to keep interest charges-and the cost of the war-low for the Government. Though the policy was fine for wartime, in peace it made the Fed, as one chairman, Marriner Eccles, complained, "an engine of inflation." Finally in 1951 the Fed rebelled, refusing to support the price of Treasury bonds...
...when Levine needs a gadget to promote one of his pictures-4,000 small rubber bombs to advertise Hercules, or 5,000 genie lamps to push the forthcoming The Wonders of Aladdin-Mrs. Levine gets busy in her own Newton Centre, Mass., workshop. With such help, plus his own shrewd eye for mass entertainment, Joe Levine has emerged as an energy-charged captain in an industry full of spent majors. The new Hollywood is apt to forget the old rules, and says Levine with a Barnum air, "we are reminding everyone that this is a circus business...