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...hero (Gary Cooper) is a sort of frontier Freud who can discharge a complex almost as fast as he can trigger a six gun. He sets up as a sawbones in a gold-mining camp, and pretty soon a pretty Swiss girl (Maria Schell), survivor of a stagecoach stickup, is brought in for treatment. He has no trouble healing her body-she is suffering from exposure, concussion, sun blindness. So then he sets out to heal her mind-she is suffering from the shock of seeing her father murdered by the bandits. As might be expected, the hero...
...David, the kindest and weakest of the bunch, has to do the dirty work. The deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin, a young painter for whom art is not enough. The crime fails not because his plan is faulty but because David cannot pull the trigger as he faces the easy victim.* The gang splits. Before novel's end, a murder does take place, one almost as pointless as the planned killing would have been...
Living with a son and a cluster of bodyguards in the Jaragua Hotel, Batista and his crew present a picture of wariness. One day last week the trigger-cock sound of a purse snapping shut in the hotel lobby made a group of his fellow Cuban exiles swivel around. Batista himself refuses to stand before an open window, spends almost all his time in his suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last...
...Governor Mike Di Salle and Pennsylvania's David Lawrence declared emergencies. In Columbus Mrs. Betty Montgomery, 59, a wheelchair-bound invalid, sat stolidly at her window, watched the Scioto River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first floor, she tied a string to the trigger of a .22 cal. rifle, aimed it at her head and pulled the string. In south Buffalo an ice dam backed up Cazenovia Creek until a wall of water finally burst the ice; the resulting wave swept automobiles underwater, ripped a 515-ft.-long grain boat from its moorings...
...last week in December, seven top Argentine Peronistas traveled to a strategy rendezvous with exiled Strongman Juan Peron in the Dominican Republic, worked out plans for a strike-and-riot attack against Frondizi. Returning to Buenos Aires, they put it into effect three days before Frondizi flew north. The trigger was a Frondizi bill, passed by Congress, giving the government permission to sell or lease a featherbedded, government-owned meatpacking plant. Workers at the plant listened to a harangue by a top Peronista, then chained the gate and barricaded themselves in. Frondizi did not hesitate. Using a Sherman tank...