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Then the President bore down hard on Ridgway: "As all of you here know, since back in 1940, I have been receiving advice from every kind of military assistant. Their advice is often expressing their own deeply felt, but, let us say, narrow fears...
...Paris' bustling Orly Airport last week, a bulletin board flashed departures to every corner of the globe-Casablanca, Mexico City, Prague, London, New York, Stockholm, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo. All planes bore the winged sea-horse insigne of Air France, Europe's biggest and the world's longest airline. Frenchmen could claim with pride that it is also one of the world's most modern. Last week France's international airline was betting some $143 million on a new jet fleet, the biggest outside the U.S. On order were twelve French-built twin-jet Caravelle...
Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy (TIME...
...construction. He pointed proudly to the fact that almost three out of five U.S. families own their own homes; then he proposed the extension of public housing facilities for low-income families, with specific authority to construct 70,000 new housing units within the next two years. The President bore down heavily upon the national problem of high medical costs: extended voluntary health insurance was essential, he said, to "help reduce the dollar barrier between many Americans and the benefits of modern care...
Some even more improbable things happen-among them Roger Moore, who as Henry II invariably wears the expression of a peevish raisin. For a time, the spectator is able to identify himself with the plight of Henry, who is said to be in mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that...