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...Hollywood could never make the kind of pictures that Latins enjoy most. Typical of Latin taste is an Argentine film, Petróleo (Oil), now showing in Buenos Aires. A Grade B melodrama according to U. S. standards, it was hailed in Argentina as one of the best Latin films to date. Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over...
...National Park School. Chickley Alp has two town and six trails. The Edelweiss Club, whose members compete throughout the East, practices over the racing trail and jumps, one of which is 30 meters. A quarter of a mile on this trail represents a thousand foot drop, and the average grade is from 16 to 28 percent...
...triple blast of land artillery, air bombs and shelling from ships opened. Sappers went out to grade the tank ditch and kill land mines. Tanks poured through, wagging their tails of infantry behind them. Some Aussies crept ahead under cross-curtain of tank and machine-gun fire to cut barbed-wire entanglements. Then the full power of attack brushed past pillboxes, deployed back and crushed them from behind. That accounted for the outer semicircle. For the inner, the process was the same. By noon both had been broken. By sunset the attackers had pushed eight miles to the heights looking...
...blue book: "I know nothing of the North American Fisheries and less about international law, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you the fishes' point of view." He did, and his blue book was so funny that the professor gave him a passing grade. --Christian Science Monitor
...Committee of Examiners, whose names have not been revealed, has also been organized to prepare and grade the examinations. Replacing the nine or ten who collaborated in past years, this group of three consists of one permanent officer of the University, one faculty instructor, and one annual instructor...