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...Democrats attacking Republicans, or vice versa, but Democrats flailing at Democrats. With time running out on the first session of the 86th Congress, Democrats exploded with pent-up frustration at their inability to make a partisan record and get hold of an issue. Their No. 1 target: their own shrewd, well-tailored Senate majority leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...Mozabites occupy a crucial area, so rich is it in oil. The descendants of a persecuted splinter group of Moslems that took refuge in their present inaccessible home back in the Middle Ages, they do not allow their wives to unveil even for the dentist. But they have been shrewd in jumping aboard the oil bandwagon, and French officials estimate that there are already at least a score of franc billionaires among the Mozabites. "France never has and never will tamper with your faith and customs," Soustelle told the bearded oldsters. And to a group of young oil truckers...
Middle of the Night (Sudan; Columbia) transforms an honest but clumsy play by Paddy Chayefsky into a cruelly beautiful and moving film, a story of life and love as a man grows older. The man (Fredric March) is a clothing manufacturer-shrewd, hardworking, decent. At 56, still "a vigorous man with normal appetites," still fairly attractive to women, he finds himself a widower. What to do with the rest of his life? At first he simply works, works, works. After a while he starts spending time at his married daughter's house, playing with the baby. Then...
Down the Well. Written when he was 25., The Curmudgeon is minor compared to the later shrewd comedies that inspired (by way of plagiarisms by Plautus) European playwrights from Racine to Giraudoux...
Died. Stephen L (for nothing) Richards, 79, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the powerful triumvirate that rules the church, shrewd lawyer and businessman who concentrated on the far-flung Mormon missionary program; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City...