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...squadrons of Yak fighters droned over the city in formation, scaring Berliners. The four powers had agreed that there would be no formation flying over Berlin or over the Western air corridors. At the four-power Air Safety Center, the lone Russian official, who was poring over a magazine, looked at his watch, silently handed a paper to a U.S. captain sitting nearby, and resumed his reading. The paper was another protest against alleged U.S. flight violations...
...Quebec City, regarded as a Liberal stronghold. Before election, the Liberals held 33 seats in the legislature; now they have eight. Funny-money L'Union des Electeurs elected none of its 92 candidates, the socialist CCF's seven candidates were all defeated, and so was the lone Communist. One Nationalist and one Independent squeezed in. Union Nationale, which had 52 seats before, will now have...
Hollywood had known something of the meteoric Howard Hughes story for two decades. He had always been an independent-a lone wolf, unpredictable and exasperatingly successful most of the time. Now he had stepped into control of a top studio. After trying (characteristically) to get the stock for two points less than the market, he had paid Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium a whacking $8,825,690 for 929,020 shares...
What did Hughes, the lone wolf, want with RKO? He takes great pains to hide his motives; but no doubt one motive was his hankering for theater outlets controlled by himself. RKO owns 124 theaters. Hughes has had great trouble distributing The Outlaw-that long and vigorously publicized mixture of sex, slapstick and violence-mainly because of censorship, but partly because independent exhibitors were simply afraid of it. To date, it has played only about 40% of its original contracts. In the face of derisive snorts from highbrow critics, Hughes firmly believes that, if distribution obstacles can be overcome...
...Lone Ranger (Wed. 4:30 p.m., ABC), celebrating his 15th radio anniversary by entertaining a chaperoned, prize-winning child in a "Frontier Mystery Town" that has kept U.S. youngsters agog...