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...World, on 49th Street east of Times Square, is in its nth consecutive year of showing first-rate Italian movies. Right now its Bitter Rice, concerning feminine violence in the Po valley...
...imported, but in diminishing number and quality. Best of a thin lot was Alberto Moravia's Two Adolescents, two fine, perfectly turned long stories about difficult boyhood. Worthy but dull, at least in translation, was Riccardo Bacchelli's ambitious, much-praised historical novel, The Mill on the Po...
...army, has been Mao's special creation, his fierce pride & joy. The strategy and tactics of guerrilla war have absorbed a good deal of his scholarly study. His trusty Commander in Chief Chu Teh and his brilliant field generals Lin Piao, Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng have been the fighting brawn directed by his own bookwise brain...
Under General Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), boss of Southwest China, the campaign was begun a year ago with drilling of troops in mountain warfare and of party commissars in the Tibetan tongue and customs. On Oct. 7 the advance got under way. Each soldier carried 100 lbs. of arms and rice. Other supplies were loaded on truck and yak caravans. Pontoon bridges were laid across treacherously rapid rivers...
Crash! The uncertain hamlet of Dogpatch is equipped with standard but movable props, all of them hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with...