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...government through the current parliamentary session without any serious recurrence of last year's fatigue. "He's as perky as he ever was," observed one government official. "He's enjoying his job too much to give it up." A top Liberal who asked him point-blank about his political plans last week reported afterward that St. Laurent said "definitely, with no ifs or buts [that he] will run in the next election," and serve as Prime Minister "as long as his health stands...
...however, have slowly had their effect. Along with the much-discussed scars of conformity and fear, introspection caused by the investigations has probably also brought a generally saner approach to the whole problem of academic freedom. No longer is the typical case necessarily that of the professor who refused point-blank to testify to a committee. Faculty people have learned that silence or impudence before investigators is usually more inimical to their own cause than forthright, honest testimony. The resolution, or at least simplification, of some issues, however, has left at least one problem more isolated and more important than...
...Cover (Paramount) is Jimmy Cagney's 50th. movie, and he proves his durability in the very first reel by walking into a point-blank ambush and emerging with nothing more than a scraped forehead. Since the ambush was a mistake, the chastened townsfolk make Cagney their new sheriff, and he promotes his sidekick (John Derek), who was crippled by the posse, to be deputy. But Derek is the kind of fellow who nurses a grudge-first he helps Badman Ernest Borgnine to escape, then he betrays Cagney, shoots him in the back and leaves him to drown...
...called up Vietnamese army reinforcements to relieve a couple of hardpressed Vietnamese garrisons near by. Thundering to the scene in trucks, the reinforcements were ambushed along the Boulevard Gallieni by well-placed Binh Xuyen machine gunners, but the Vietnamese government troops piled out, unlimbered a 37-mm. fieldpiece, battered point-blank at the Binh Xuyen, and then charged...
...estimate of Communist intent is based on an observable military buildup and on corroborating intelligence from top-secret sources. On the China mainland facing Quemoy, the Reds are moving into revetted positions heavy artillery of 155 mm. and up. There are some 250 observable positions along a semicircle at point-blank ranges of from 2½ to five miles. At Foochow, the jump-off point for a Matsu invasion, the buildup is also apparent...