Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, a crew financed by mighty Joe Levine is making Zulu. It concerns an incident which was a kind of Alamo in reverse-on Jan. 22, 1879, some 130 British soldiers stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with...
Were it not a highly useful poor boys' school, costing less than $800 a year for room, board and tuition, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (8,057 men) might best be known as the only campus in the world to combine the mythology of St.-Cyr, Heidelberg and the Alamo. Often called Texas Athletic and Military, it hatches ferocious football players and in both World Wars had more Army officers than West Point.* It is the nation's largest military college and the only land-grant college that still bars women. To some it seems to be dying...
...Attorney General has been explaining the United States, not always an easy task, with an agility and toughness remarkable even in the President's family. Most unfavorable reactions, in fact, emitted from Texans, who excoriated his apology for the Mexican War and pleaded that he not forget the Alamo, an heroic episode that took place some 12 years earlier...
Wildest Battle. The Texas Democratic gubernatorial primary next May figures to be the wildest battle since the Alamo. Attorney General Wilson is an announced candidate. Incumbent Governor Price Daniel is wistfully weighing his chances for an unprecedented fourth term. U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the leader of Texas' liberal Democratic wing, has notions about standing for the governorship. And now comes Connally-a longtime Johnson prot...
Plot ain't much. By James Edward Grant (The Alamo) and Clair Huffaker, out of a novel by Paul I. Wellman, the script describes how John Wayne and Stuart Whitman make buzzard meat out of, oh, about 700 greasy renegades-yellow-bellied skunks running guns to the Comanches. (Actually, Big John does the job by himself. Stu is like the human figure beside the geography-book whale; he just sort of stands there to show how big Big John really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman...