Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switched U.S. support to Carranza, saying. "I intend to teach the South American republics to elect good men." A U.S. fleet invaded Veracruz in 1914; Carranza won. but repudiated the U.S. intervention. Nevertheless, two years later, Wilson ordered General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing into Mexico on a fruitless pursuit of Pancho Villa after Villa had raided Columbus, N.Mex...
...Pursuit (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).* John Cassavetes and E. G. Marshall, as a couple of Internal Revenue sleuths examining the double-entry bookkeeping of greedy Industrialist Conrad Nagel...
...wild country he lurks in. Dictator Fulgencio Batista keeps a hold on Havana, where a fifth of all Cubans live, and all other sizable cities, and still controls the labor unions, most of the press, an army estimated at 46,000, an air force that includes bombers and pursuit planes. But he cannot keep order, and apparently lacks the capacity or will to try a major offensive...
...Pursuit (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).* Daphne du Maurier's Kiss Me Again, Stranger, in which an Air Force lieutenant hunts the murderer of his slain buddy, may warm viewers simply by the heat of its cast...
...tireless pursuit of mediocrity and unreadability, the nation's run-of-the-film movie critics have transformed themselves into a group dispensary of tasteless, colorless and odorless critical treacle, ignored on a wholesale basis by the moviegoer, sampled only by the movie industry itself, which is merely vigilant for any sign of recalcitrant tartness. The New York Film Critics met recently to wring hands over the cases of Zinsser and Gilbert, deplored industry pressure for two hours, and adjourned. "Nothing was done by the critics," wrote New York Post Critic Archer Winsten with some bitterness, "and nothing will...