Word: avila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vanished players had one thing in common: they were all Algerians. It was as if, overnight, the best Latin American baseball players in the major leagues-men like Chico Carrasquel, Bobby Avila, Minnie Minoso, Ruben Gomez-had fled the U.S. and challenged the Yankees and Braves for the world championship...
...students than Economist Wayne M.c-Naughton of U.C.L.A. Attending his course on all-round American-style executivemanship at Madrid's School of Industrial Organization were some of Spain's most prominent businessmen and politicians, e.g., Lawyer Buenaventura Fernandez Crehuet, member of the Cortes, and Dr. Francisco Javier Fernandez Avila, brother of the director of the government's Industrial Productivity Commission. Though he had to work through an interpreter, McNaughton thought he was getting along just fine-until one day he decided to give the class a test...
...barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand girl, is a dispensable part in a story that Forester correctly conceived as all-male. The Pride's real passion would far better have aimed solely at the conquest of Avila; Operation Sophia is pointless reconnaissance...
...movie's individuals are seen microscopically as mere cells of the whole. The problem is to drag, float and worry The Gun (recast from C. S. Forester's novel of that name) halfway across Spain to the walled city of Avila. The year is 1810. The objective: to bring down the wall, storm the breach and recapture Avila from the headquarters garrison...
Sinatra-despite spitcurl bangs and a put-on accent-expectably works hardest, acts best. Captain Grant suavely keeps trying not to remind himself of Horatio Hornblower. So they finally get the gun to the long shadow of Avila's wall, blast their opening at 1.600 yards, and sliding in on their own blood, overwhelm the hated occupiers. Thus Producer Kramer conquers Napoleon's forces. But somehow the whir of the cameras often seems as loud as the thunderous cannonades. It evidently takes more than dedication, cooperative multitudes and $4,000,000 to shoot history in the face...