Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...best organization in any presidential campaign, are working hard to counter anti-Catholic feeling and to offset Republicans in the booming Piedmont cities and in the western mountain counties. The Democrats have sent in Harry Truman to talk common sense to his fellow Baptists, have shown the Kennedy Houston film three times. A sitdown by old-line Democrats could throw it to Nixon. UNPREDICTABLE...
...down school buildings and low teacher salaries. He took hold of an attack on his religion led by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and turned it into an asset with his courageous question-and-answer session with the Houston ministers-and his lieutenants saw to it that the film of the session was telecast in key Catholic as well as Protestant areas. In the grueling ordeal of the presidential campaign, his qualities of steadiness served him well...
...Alamo (Batjac; United Artists), which is the first picture ever directed by Hollywood He-Man John Wayne, is also the biggest western ever made. Wayne & Co. have not quite managed to make it the worst. Shot in Todd-AO and exposed on color film that is practically fluorescent, the movie was produced on location in a $1,500,000 replica of the Alamo and the village around it, employs 1,500 horses and seven instantly recognizable human beings (Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Richard Boone, Frankie Avalon, Linda Cristal, Chill Wills). Released as a reserved-seat feature...
Half a Toothpick. With high-speed film, the resultant X-ray image is sharp enough to show blockages only one-fourth the width of a coronary artery, and to pick out collateral blood vessels only 80 microns in diameter-about half the thickness of a toothpick. Says Sones: "We hope eventually to be able to see vessels as small as 30 microns (.0012 in.) in diameter, because even vessels that small can act as effective collateral channels for blood from a diseased artery...
...case of The Alamo, forever is almost attained in one projection; the film runs three hours and 38 minutes, including an intermission. The first three hours, moreover, are as flat as Texas. Plenty happens: a seduction, an orgy, a murder, a battle royal in a barroom. But it all seems to have happened before, in some other John Wayne western, and in any case most of the action has nothing to do with the Alamo...