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...assist from-of all people-the Communists. Russia was clamoring to buy U.S. wheat, and when reports hit Wall Street that the Soviets' sunflower crop had also failed, rumors flared that the Russians would soon be shopping for U.S. vegetable oil. In six weeks during the autumn of 1963, soybean oil climbed from 9.20 per Ib. to 10.30. But on Nov. 15 the market cracked-and so did Tino...
...however, the curse of Communism upon the land he loves bites much deeper. "There has never been anything like it in the world, and I want to forget it, force it never to have been, for fear of cursing my country, the mother who gave me birth on an autumn day in Kiev." But his hope is as large as his grief: "I firmly believe that man will triumph, and not the ape. I believe that Russia will enter the new century liberated and renewed in spirit, and that by then. Communism will only be a nursery bogey to frighten...
...minute experimental masterpiece called To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, which so far has only been shown at the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. The picture will not be shown anywhere else until after the fair closes next autumn...
...Cheyenne Autumn has everything it takes to make a great western epic, except greatness. In her book based on a bleak episode of American history, Mari Sandoz re-created the ordeal of 286 Cheyenne Indians, stung by the indignities of exile on a reservation, who in 1878 fought and starved and struggled through a 1,500-mile journey from Oklahoma's Indian Territory to their homeland in eastern Montana. En route, with U.S. Army units ever at their heels, they were bedeviled by bad weather, bitter dissension, and the white man's cruelty. In this wayward...
...Autumn's strongest scenes turn on the senseless murder of a Cheyenne by transient cowpokes, and the tribe's ritual slaying of a brave (Sal Mineo) who has taken another man's wife. Here and in the stoic, timeless beauty of Squaw Dolores Del Rio are intimations of the tragedy that might have been. Most of the time, though, Ford scatters his beleaguered redskins listlessly across a 70-mm. Super Panavision landscape, showing twice the width but little of the scope that distinguished such Ford classics as Stagecoach. Perhaps he feels alien to Indians...