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...recent years, the Sun-Times has combined sporadic crusading with more sober analysis. "We talk about the old interrogatories-who, what, where, when, why," says Akers. "Too many newspapers don't tell why." He found that one way to get the why was to weed the mediocre reporters out of his staff and to keep the pay scales high enough to attract bright newsmen...
Brainstorm begins with a small, safe idea, carefully contrived to spur concern for the right people. Driving home from work one night, a sober young research analyst (Jeff Hunter) comes upon a locked limousine stalled on the railroad tracks, with an irresistible blonde (Anne Francis) asleep inside. Of course, he saves her from an approaching train. Of course, she upbraids him for spoiling her attempted suicide, and of course she turns out to be the wife of his employer (Dana Andrews), the ruthless tycoon who heads Benson Industries...
Director Miguel Picazo, in a first film blessed with faultless performances, heightens his effects with taste and economy and masterfully uncovers the cruelty buried under centuries-old layers of Spanish folkways. The best of this sober sex drama catches every nuance of self-denial in the shock of an unexpected word or gesture; the giddy, slightly drunken release of inhibitions among women at a bridal shower; the total revelation of loneliness and hunger in the eyes of a widower who paces through a long empty night, his imagination inflamed by a last light flickering out in the house across...
Despite the symptoms of instability, the U.S. remained as firm in its commitment as ever. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, questioned about the possibility of Russia and China joining forces in Viet Nam, issued a sober warning. "It would be a great mistake," said Rusk, "if the other side should think that they can have a larger war with impunity, and that a larger war on their side would remove us from Southeast Asia...
...those papers!" roared Ghana's Information Minister Nathaniel Azaroc Welbeck, banging his gavel as if it were a shoe. Before him, in the auditorium of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute at Winneba, a fishing village west of Accra, the Fourth Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Conference sat assembled in sober splendor. But not in unity. Despite Nkrumah's keynote speech calling for brotherhood among all "anti-imperialist, anticolonialist, anti-neocolonialist and anti-racialist" movements, Conference Chairman Welbeck admitted sadly: "Some of the delegates are quarreling among themselves...