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...fourth and final installment involves the Parisian moviegoer who has been watching all this happen on the screen from a balcony seat. He, too, has a murder up his sleeve, and trapped in his clever-and stupefyingly complicated -design are a British army officer (Richard Todd), whose stiff upper lip extends right on up to the top of his head, and the moviegoer's wife, the still beautiful Danielle Darrieux. There is some business about whisky, ice trays and special-delivery letters and the services of la Súreté would be needed to get it all straight...
Officers and noncoms take eight-to 15-week courses in such subjects as village administration, agriculture, public health, guerrilla warfare and "Information Science"-a stiff dose of anti-Communist propaganda. In West Java villages, lieutenants teach peasants to read with king-sized letter cards, and sergeants demonstrate to housewives how to purify water. Knee-deep in the village streams, soldiers plant fish traps made from bamboo and rushes; in the paddyfields, noncoms and men with hoes help farmers clear irrigation ditches of weeds and snags. "The villages are where we won the revolution against the Dutch," says an army colonel...
...leagues, where subsidies for team equipment and ice practice time are more readily available. In Canada players from eight to 16 players participate on either Mosquito, Pee Wee, Bantam, or Midget teams. From this lower level of the hookey anarchy those players who are good enough to withstand the stiff competition graduate to the Juvenile ranks, in which they may remain until they reach...
Although gale warnings flying from the Charles River Yacht Club Sunday morning exaggerated actual conditions, wind did blow out of the northwest throughout the day at speeds from 15 to 25 knots. The stiff breezes knocked over ten boats and forced several more which filled up with water to retire from the race...
...hair, though thin, had to be stiff. Dr. Gallagher tried hair from the heads of Orientals. No good. He tried coarse eyebrow hairs. Not much better. Then he found that hog's hair was scaly enough to cause clotting, and stiff enough to be fired from the gun. So is hair from a horse's tail...