Word: swiftness
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...Europe look on with a growing sense of chagrin. Europe, traditionally the primary focus of American foreign relations, seems to many of its leaders to have been relegated by Washington to stepchild status. Not since June 1965 has a U.S. President or Vice President visited the Continent despite the swift and subtle changes that have overtaken Europe. Last week Hubert Humphrey set out on a two-week, seven-nation European swing aimed at demonstrating that the U.S. has not cut its ties because of overconcern with its transpacific interests. Far from it. The Administration is only too well aware...
Difficult as it is for the police to perform their appointed jobs within the restraints of the law, the problems facing the courts may be even tougher. A U.S. citizen haled before the bar has every right to expect swift and impartial justice. Too often he gets neither. "Our system of justice deliberately sacrifices much in efficiency and even in effectiveness in order to preserve local autonomy and to protect the individual," says the commission. "Sometimes it may seem to sacrifice too much...
...Huks have set up their own courts, which are the law of the land in broad stretches of central Luzon. Huk justice is swift and decisive: cattle thieves and rapists, for example, are often executed on the spot. Huk agents exact tribute and taxes from thousands of Filipinos. The biggest collection center is Angeles City near the U.S. Air Force's Clark Field. Maids for American families must pay five pesos ($1.25) monthly to the Huks; Huk treasurers take a big rake-off from the gambling parlors and bars frequented by U.S. troops...
...Promises and piecrust," observed Dr. Swift, "are made to be broken." By ignoring such cynicism, California's Ronald Reagan risked a lot of pastry. During his election campaign, the new Republican Governor had pledged "sound financial management," and last week had the crust to demand the highest budget ever proposed in any American state, buttressed by the biggest tax boost in California history...
...film, Succeed often fails by seeming to run in place. Director David Swift has staged far too many of the numbers simply as people singing songs, with the camera standing by as an admiring observer. There is nowhere near enough sight humor to justify the billing "visual gags by [Cartoonist] Virgil Partch...