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...anything negotiable rather than thermonuclear war? Are we going to wipe out two-and-a-half billion years of slow biological improvement? Over what-Berlin? I agree with Nehru that to go to war under any circumstances for anything at all in our world in our time is utter absurdity. I certainly think Berlin is negotiable, and, as a matter of fact, Khrushchev is not even asking very much...
Hypnotic Gas. A quiet, secretive, self-educated, 39-year-old intellectual who is calm and courteous on the set and an utter mystery to his friends, Resnais was born in Vannes, the son of a Breton pharmacist. He made his first motion picture, called Adventures of Fantomas, when he was 13, using 8-mm. film and proceeding on the lovely green theory that if he concentrated on closeups his child actors would look adult...
...clock surveillance weighs heavily on every U.S. official who lives and works in a Communist state. Electronic eavesdropping has become so insidious and ubiquitous an art behind the Iron Curtain that there is hardly a single spot where a Western diplomat-or even a vacationer-can talk with utter certainty that Big Brother is not listening. Says one old State Department hand: "You just have to get used to living with it. It's like living in a haunted house...
Coventry became a household word synonymous with utter demolition on the night of Nov. 14, 1940, when the Nazi Luftwaffe, in one of the most terrible raids of the war, systematically pulverized the industrial town in the English Midlands, killing more than 500 people. Center and symbol of the destruction was St. Michael's Cathedral, of which nothing was left the next morning but the famed 15th century tower and spire. While the rubble still smoked, a local craftsman, under the Bishop of Coventry's direction, bound two charred timbers from the roof together with wire to make...
...court unanimously agreed that the three turncoats had "behaved with utter disloyalty to their comrades and to their country." But like it or not, the law was clear. Said the court: "In the armed forces, as everywhere else, there are good men and rascals, courageous men and cowards, honest men and cheats. But a soldier who has not received punishment from a duly constituted court-martial is entitled to the statutory pay . . . however ignoble a soldier...