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...soul-baring, grim message of our young, brilliant President has given life again to the famed declaration of a World War I French Marshal: "They shall not pass...
...open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...
...headquarters for SEATO. Although the Thais are gentle people and not famous for stalwart struggle in the face of adversity (they surrendered to the Japanese with embarrassing speed in World War II, soon switched sides and happily declared war on the U.S.), they are bossed by tough Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who has built a strong 100,000-man army with the help of $550 million in U.S. aid. A popular dictator, Sarit made his country prosperous, faces no serious domestic discontent, and has kept his few domestic Communists well in hand...
...Rode Together (Ford; Columbia) is a capricious, unsuccessful but oddly likable western by Director John Ford, who starts off by making it seem clear that the film will be a horselaugh opera. Jimmie Stewart plays a grafting marshal who has a 10% piece of everything in a Panhandle dust hole, including a gorgeous sporting-house proprietress. But when a cavalry lieutenant (Richard Widmark) asks him mysteriously to ride 40 miles to the fort, Stewart scuttles away with him. The sporting lady wears a stiletto, the marshal explains, and favors marriage...
Then Ford unaccountably doubles back on the trail. The marshal, it develops, is no altar vaulter; he is four-fifths of a bastard, going on five. Comanches have taken dozens of white captives, and the commandant wants Stewart to get them back. The request is straight out of the last thousand horse movies, but Stewart's answer is new: hell no. The commandant shudders; he has done westerns before, and this is not the way the scene is supposed to go. But he asks, disbelievingly, would money change Stewart's mind? "Yah." says Stewart, interested for the first...