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...advance into Tibet to free 3,000,000 Tibetans from imperialist oppression and to consolidate national defense of the western borders of China . . ." The Red army was striking from Sikang and Tsinghai provinces, in China's far west, toward the formidable 15,000-ft. passes into the bleak Tibetan plateau...
...bleak, rainy, gale-swept afternoon last week, several thousand Highlanders gathered at the little village of Inveruglas on the west bank of Loch Lomond. Queen Elizabeth, in a fur-trimmed coat, stood in the drizzle to tell the crowd: "This mighty scheme [will send] new strength surging into the very arteries of Scotland's being." Then she pulled the lever that set the Loch Sloy power plant in operation. As the rhythmic hum of generators signaled the first current, bagpipes skirled...
...bleak, cotton-growing Ejido Florencia, back in the hills from the northern city of Torreón, the name of Cliserio Reyes was a standing joke. While other boys of his age in the small farming community interested themselves in girls or beisbol, 18-year-old Cliserio spent all his spare time and meager pocket money building model airplanes. To repeated gibes, and pleas from his friends to abandon such foolishness, he replied flatly: "Some day I'm going...
...Flags West was written and produced by Casey (The Macomber Affair) Robinson with obvious enthusiasm. Director Robert Wise gets much of the authenticity of Brady's famed Civil War photographs into the bleak details of the P.W. camp and the isolated frontier post. Jeff Chandler (who was the upstanding Indian chief in Broken Arrow) plays the bitter and contemptuous commanding officer of Fort Thorn with such conviction that he very nearly steals the picture from Stars Cotten and Darnell. When the Kiowas come swarming into the fort, Two Flags West ends with just about as rousing an Indian fight...
...bleak, green-walled hall of California's San Quentin Prison one day last week, an odd sort of jury-two murderers, one sex offender, assorted thieves and forgers-solemnly took their places at a table before an audience of fellow convicts. The case before them was an old one: Athens v. Socrates. The evidence: Plato's Apology, in which Socrates defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth of the city, and the Crito, in which the old prisoner refuses a chance to escape...