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...auditorium stage, he even bowed gracefully to that inescapable insigne of presidential candidates, an Indian war bonnet. Seasoned Campaigner Nixon liked what he heard and saw. The crowds were bigger and more enthusiastic than he expected, bolstering his hopes for carrying Texas in November (against any Democrat except Texas' own Lyndon Johnson) and the Midwest farm states despite farmer discontent. In Fargo, N. Dak., upward of 3,000 cheering, placard-waving Dakotans greeted him at the airport-and, incidentally, jammed up the departure of Democrat Jack Kennedy, in town to lend a hand in the special senatorial election...
...Nationale had plainly been too long in office. It had come to power back in 1936, when the demagogic Duplessis. playing skillfully on Depression issues and the longstanding French Canadian fears of being dominated by English Canada, won a smashing victory over a Liberal regime that had become corrupt. Except for the war years 1939 to 1944, Duplessis ruled Quebec thereafter with an iron hand and a corrupt machine. Cynical and dictatorial, Le Chef rewarded the voting faithful with bridges and roads, fought labor with savage laws and police brutality, kept Quebec's eyes turned to its agricultural past...
...hounded him about the ring, shooting home numbing lefts to the body and a jolting short right to the head. The final left hook seemed to wrench Johansson's jaw around his ear. For a full four minutes, Johansson lay completely unconscious on his back, stiff and stark except for his spasmodically twitching left...
...points the story moves a bit slowly, and a director less restrained than Henry Koster might have tossed in a cavalry charge or a belly dancer to whomp things up a bit. Yet he resists temptation, and except for a few scenes in which priests of Chemosh, played by weight lifters in green lingerie, clomp about to oboe music, the picture is commendably unepic. The actors strike a reasonable compromise between self-conscious reverence and nat ural behavior, and the speeches they are given are free from the archaic flourishes that no one since the time of King James...
Such sentiments were admirable-except for one thing. As much as any other agency, the Japanese press was responsible for the very violence that it now, all so suddenly, came to condemn...