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...Were Home." They needed it. Even small wars are not complete without bungles. Brigadier General J. Ford Kent managed to maneuver three regiments, including Private Post and his outfit, onto a single cowpath over which a U.S. observation balloon served as a perfect marker for Spanish firepower. More than 400 men were killed or wounded at "Bloody Ford," and at one point Private Post found himself slipping on mud "made by the blood of the dead and wounded." When the men got to San Juan Hill, they rushed up as if it were "a football field when the game...
...gentler times an American political campaign was, in peacetime, something of a summer frolic, decked in bunting and confetti, full of oratorical balloon ascensions, baby-kissing, and free beer for everybody. The outside world learned to forgo any serious business and to watch with amused tolerance for the duration. In the taut days of 1960, the American political campaign is something quite different-a serious debate treating soberly the great issues that will affect the whole of mankind, enacted before the eyes of an anxious world...
...distended sweater, Miss Monroe is an object of considerably more interest than she held for the observers in the children's section of the RKO Eighty-Sixth Street when Monkey Business was new. Miss Monroe and her sweater are not in The Mystery of Picasso and The Red Balloon, which are designed to appeal to higher faculties, and which re-open at the Brattle today...
...begins the story of The Golden Fish, a prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival last May and now a candidate for an Oscar. Altogether the most charming short subject (running time: 18 minutes) in live action that the French film industry has produced since The Red Balloon (TIME, March 18, 1957), Fish swims along at a swift but graceful pace. Director Edmond Sechan tells his story clearly without words-and therefore without tiresome subtitles...
...Moore finally got Venus in the telescope sights. A tracking system held the image in the telescope's focus for a few minutes. Then the balloon started slowly down, drifting south over Nebraska and into Kansas. As they approached the ground, the crew cut the gondola loose from the balloon and popped a 100-ft. parachute. A gusty wind caught the parachute, dragged the gondola across pastures and through fences for half a mile before marines following in helicopters caught it and cut it loose. Bruised and shaken, the scientists climbed out. The gondola was a battered wreck...