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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Times were ripe for student radicalism in an America and a Cambridge just emerging from the Depression. But John F. Kennedy was by no means a radical. He was just a nice sort of chap who roomed in Weld...
...power conferences on Berlin because the West can only give something away, endorsed Macmillan's new summit call on the ground that a confrontation is needed before his city is nibbled to death. Now that Macmillan and Khrushchev have practically named the date, Berliners look for some sort of crisis soon after the inauguration of the next U.S. President...
...military news was encouragement of a sort to the French last week, the political news could only depress them. Rebel F.L.N. leaders gathered in Tunis for a meeting that had ominous overtones for the West. Ferhat Abbas, Premier of the provisional Algerian government, was just back from a month-long visit to Red China and Russia. "Moscow gave a new impetus to our march!" he cried jubilantly. "We are now receiving the full support of Red China." Belkacem Krim, the unofficial F.L.N. observer at the United Nations, reported excitedly on his conferences in Manhattan with Nikita Khru shchev...
...college after boarding school, and the thought of going to work in his wealthy father's steel-fabricating plant in Worcester, Mass, appalled him. He decided that a year working with Missionary Albert Schweitzer at Lambarene in Gabon on Africa's West Coast might help him sort things out. There the work was backbreaking, but he loved the life; month after month he helped clear jungle thickets and unloaded the heavy supplies that arrived by boat. "Hi ho. ho hum, here I am in the middle of Africa," Mark wrote his mother exultantly, typing out a letter...
...favorite dream. "I get married to a man 84 years old," she says wistfully. "He has a little money, and-do I get a rest!") Dassin himself, a man with the curious, worldly-otherworldly face of a middle-aged elf, is always amusing to watch. And mercurial Mercouri, a sort of Levantine Carmen Miranda, embodies with phenomenal vitality the philosophical premises of the film: 1) know-how is not necessarily power; 2) money cannot buy anything that really matters; 3) the only way to save the world is to love the people in it and accept them as they...