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...plot is generally quite simple. A lean, hardfighting ex-officer and eternal gentleman returns to Old Home Town, Texas. Finding that some dam Yankee carpetbagger has cut him out of his job, girl, homestead, and even his favorite place in the saloon, the Forgotten Hero clenches his teeth and waits. He is still waiting and quietly suffering when the girl-snatching Nawthorn rascal injures either his mother (in pictures apologizing for the James boys) or anyone's honor (in all other films of this genre). Then all hell breaks loose with proud victors vanquished, widows revenged, and Yankee misrule giving...
...Angered by the local P.T.A.'s criticism of the way schools teach the three Rs these days, the sophomore class of Washington's Coulee Dam High School challenged the grown-ups to an old-fashioned spelling bee. Last week, for 20 minutes, the grown-ups did their best, but they missed embarrassment, flubbed efficiency, collapsed on laboratory and paraffin. Final score: victory for the sophomores...
Kansas. Pushing upstream as the Republican flood rolled across Kansas, Democrat Howard S. Miller, 73-year-old farmer-lawyer from Morrill, ousted Republican Representative Albert Cole. The reason: Cole supported the Tuttle Creek Dam (TIME, Sept. 1), part of the Missouri River development program. Many residents of the district oppose the dam because it would require abandonment of many farms. A group of farm wives organized a motorcade and toured the district with Miller under the slogan: "Let's quit this dam foolishness...
...President of France, the usually equable Vincent Auriol, was almost in tears. "Messieurs, les Ambassadeurs," he cried, before a French audience gathered last week for the opening of the Rhone Valley's Donzere-Mondragon dam, built with the help of $33 million from the U.S. Addressing himself directly to the assembled foreign diplomatic corps, which included the U.S.'s James C. Dunn, Auriol launched into an emotional refutation of recent U.S. criticism of France...
...voting to let Arab grievances against French colonial rule in North Africa be aired in the U.N.; 2) cutting 20% of 1953 military aid to France: "Without doubt the Marshall Plan helped us, and we have often cited the benefits with gratitude [the Rhone dam was one], but unfortunately defense of freedom in Indo-China has already cost us just about double what we have received . . ."; 3) ignoring France's objections to German rearmament: "Although we have no hatred for those who made us suffer so much, and we desire to forget their cruelties if they agree...