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...Iron Cross. After returning to Madrid, Munoz Grandes served in several army posts, played an important part in negotiating Spain's 1953 agreement to permit U.S. air bases on Spanish soil. In 1957 Franco promoted him to the rank of captain general (the Spanish equivalent of field marshal), the next year named him chief of the General Staff...
...only is his book not complacent, it is aggressively critical--and this because he so passionately would like our colleges and universities to be all they could. Eble, now close to forty, chose the right time to marshal his ideas and impressions. The Profane Comedy is a work he could not have written at thirty and would not have written at sixty...
Meanwhile, 20th Century-Fox's Field Marshal Zanuck was busy on the home front. Irritated by the rising sway of the stockbrokers who purged Fox President Spyros Skouras, Zanuck set himself up as a one-man Pentagon and declared war. Calling for a special meeting of the Fox board within 30 days, he said he would like to double the size of the board and hence dilute the brokers' power. If he was given enough power, he hinted, he might consent to take over as president. Zanuck was the studio's production boss until 1956, left...
Ride the High Country. Grey is the color of the hero's hair. He helped bring law and order to the West, but civilization has made the former marshal (Joel McCrea) obsolete. Then he gets the offer of man's work: bankers in the town of Hornitos want him to pick up and transport gold along lonely trails from a new strike in the High Sierras at a place candidly christened Coarse Gold. He runs across another ex-lawman (Randolph Scott), who is picking up pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests...
...confusion was Justice Douglas' concurring opinion-which was mistakenly understood by many as having some force of law. Douglas reached far beyond Black, presenting the view that the customary daily prayers at the opening of each house of Congress, and even the ritual cry of the marshal at the opening of each Supreme Court session ("God save the U.S. and this honorable court"), violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Douglas' opinion magnified the widespread fears that the court's decision would lead to the erasing of all traces of religion from government, even the words...