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Anna (Lux Film; I.F.E.) is an Italian-made melodrama that bears a striking resemblance to a slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...
...note-book ripped, my coat was torn...
Hockey-lovers were alarmed early in December by the announcement of Walter Brown, manager of the Garden-Arena Corporation, that the old structure would be sold to a group of New York businessmen, and probably torn down. Under Brown the Arena was operating at a reported loss of $35,000 a year...
...strike-torn '30s, the U.A.W. organized Studebaker without a work stoppage. Vance and Hoffman persuaded the union to retain the piecework pay system that had been a company policy for years. (Studebaker wages now are equal to or better than its rivals'-a potent factor in preserving the company's 101-year record without a strike.) With the track cleared, Vance and Hoffman were ready to step on the gas in search of new markets...
...third morning, the Red-led mob swarmed out of Karachi's slums and back alleys; there was now hardly a student in sight, not a word about student grievances. Up & down the streets the mob surged, bearing a gory bundle, the lifeless, shell-torn body of a teen-age boy. "Close down," rioters yelled. "Observe hartal [the strike]." Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters...