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...along lonely trails from a new strike in the High Sierras at a place candidly christened Coarse Gold. He runs across another ex-lawman (Randolph Scott), who is picking up pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand threats of her religious zealot father for the ring-finger promises of a beau up at Coarse Gold...
...Trigger. Nearly every paper explored the causes of the slump-and many lined up with the New York Herald Tribune in blaming the President. "What might be called the Republican guess," said the Daily News, "is that President John F. Kennedy brought on the recent market slumps and slides with his savage, Gestapo-like attack on the steel companies. Democrats guess otherwise . . . that the market re-entry actually was caused by a widespread realization that the era of inflation in this country is over for a long time to come. Our own hunch is that Columnist Walter Lippmann taxed...
...Wall Street Journal invoked the spirit of its founder, Charles Dow and his "trigger theory" of market slumps ("when the stock market has run its upward course it often takes a 'great event' to trigger its fall"), fingered Kennedy's joust with steel as the trigger. The Journal ventilated other grudges: "True, there were a few little [economic] problems. But the Administration was going to solve the dollar problem abroad by cutting Aunt Bessie's customs allowance. It was going to spur business by suing nearly every major company under the antitrust laws, and hold down...
Also a factor is the strain of modern living. According to research, such emotions as anger and anxiety trigger dormant allergies, including hay fever...
...multiplying population were causing an "explosive situation" inside China. Openly critical of China's foreign policy, Nehru bluntly accused Peking of "creating situations and tensions among the nations of Asia." Angrily he refuted China's contention that Tibetans in refugee camps in India were being recruited to trigger a revolt in Tibet. "Whatever might happen to Tibet in the future." he said, "it is obvious who is now riding on the backs of the Tibetan people." The nagging doubt remained that Nehru had often in the past put up a brave front against the Chinese, only to back...