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...French settlers, many of them born in North Africa, which they regard as their home. Americans on the scene frequently accuse the settlers of being more narrow, repressive and intransigent than the French government. Marshal Alphonse Juin, commander of the NATO ground forces in Europe, was born at Bone in Algeria. Last week Juin (onetime Resident-General of Morocco, 1947-51) strongly attacked the U.S.'s wavering attitude. "There was nothing to get excited about so long as our opponents were only the Arab bloc, bound together by Moslem solidarity, and the U.S.S.R. with her satellites . . . but today...
...more time for his beloved cave dwellers. Nearly every day, after saying early Mass, he changed into workman's clothes and took off on his motorcycle for Mt. Castillo. Out of the dirt floors came all the apparatus of the cavemen's lives: carved scepters, bone pins and needles, harpoons, stone lamps. Father Jesus' two-room apartment was soon full to overflowing. He appealed to the city for a place to house his collection, and was turned down. Churchmen told him that his motorcycling in layman's clothes was a scandal. So he went again...
...starts off promisingly as a character study of tensions among the hard-riding, hard-living members of the broken-bone-and-bandage set, but soon falls into a conventional movie mold. A Texas cowhand (Arthur Kennedy) becomes a champion rider with the help of a has-been rodeo ace (Robert Mitchum). But Kennedy has a beautiful red-haired wife (Susan Hay-ward). So just as much action begins to develop outside the rodeo arena as inside when the two men tangle over the lady. The gustiest characterization in The Lusty Men is provided by Arthur Hunnicutt as a punchy...
...Aftermath. Grandier was seized, probed to the bone with a long needle for "devil's pain-free spots," put to the "question extraordinary" (a procedure in which the victim's legs were systematically splintered), adjudged guilty and burned at the stake...
...like that, with steep, barren ridges running down to the sea. There the Polynesians built a temple, but they did not stay long because they did not find what they needed: fertile land near the sea. This description also matches Peru, for most of the Peruvian coast is bone-dry desert...