Word: swiftness
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Many factors coalesced to force the swift move. Pollster-Analyst Albert Sindlinger found early in August that the consumer confidence index had fallen to 55%?lower, he said, than during the 1957 recession. Only 27% of those he interviewed wanted to see Nixon reelected. Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans warned that this year the U.S. may be running a trade deficit for the first time since 1893. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills was getting ready to hold hearings on his own proposals for the economy. The final blow was a devastating new attack on the long-weakened...
Surrounded by Belgium, Germany and France, the thousand-year-old Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has long been a popular parade ground for foreign armies. In the past two centuries there have been 14 invasions, mostly swift and successful. But most invaders find the Rhode Island-sized polity a nice place to visit and too insignificant to bother annexing. If the Luxembourgeois have a national characteristic, it is the ability to profit from their defenselessness...
...symbolism and Robert Shaw's script are heavy, the action is fairly swift. Losey contributes some precise craftsmanship, Shaw and McDowell a couple of very good performances, Spanish deserts and mountains some arrestingly picturesque vistas. The combination is not quite enough to make up for the inflated metaphors, which bob about on the surface of the action like a collection of lopsided inner tubes. Without them, the film would be just another action flick, rather better engineered than most...
...only disappointing aspect of the display for Israelis was that it did not include more of the swift, dangerous U.S.-built Phantoms, the backbone of the air force. Israel has so far received approximately 85 Phantoms and lost nine in sorties over Sinai or in accidents. Last year it requested another 40 or so to keep its military power on a par with that of the Arabs...
...gave a powerful impression of the assured technician. Even reporters who did not cover the Pentagon liked to attend his press conferences. Briefed to the eyeballs behind his almost rimless glasses, his gleaming black hair immaculately slicked, McNamara delivered an unstoppable stream of convincing detail. He had a swift answer for every question, a sharp rebuttal for every doubt...