Word: bandits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three cheers for the Greek army! It has saved Greece from the Communist butchers twice in 20 years: during the Bandit War of 1947-49 and again on April...
Riding south with a wagonload of symbolic refugees from reality, the tough Hombre wards off a bandit attack led by Richard Boone. But Boone manages to kidnap an Indian-hating lady (Barbara Rush) and rustle the horses, leaving Newman to lead the little band to shelter. The band, it turns out, consists of soloists who cannot harmonize: a malleable Mexican driver (Martin Balsam) who has settled for permanent second-string status; Rush's husband, a corrupt Government agent Fredric March); a pair of bickering teenagers; and a wry-and-ginger redhead (Diane Cilento) who wouldn't mind becoming...
Hombre finally leads the group through the desert to an abandoned mining shack, where they hole up and the plot gets out of hand. Bandit Boone reappears, offering to trade the kidnaped lady for March's moneybags and the passengers' water bags. When Newman says no to the offer, the bandits retaliate by tying Rush to a railroad tie. Inside the shack pretentious dialogue is delivered portentously. "It's a shock to grow old," March mutters. "There is no God . . . There is a hell . . ." The adolescents cower and try to find each other. Balsam pines and wavers...
...puffy features of Mao Tse-tung on the Jan. 13 cover. The distributor hand-stamped the thousand or more copies (exclusive of those for the U.S. military) that circulate in Taiwan. Earlier, the Taiwanese have occasionally stamped our pictures of Red Chinese figures with the word Kungfei, or Communist bandit. Deliveries of the X-ed issue were several days late, but the Nationalists had their figurative revenge and the last word in Taiwan on Chairman Mao as far as TIME was concerned. We feel they also provided an intriguing comment on the Chinese mentality and its preoccupation with form, subjects...
Markell chased the unarmed bandit down Mt. Auburn St. toward Boylston St. The thief lost his nerve, Markell said, dropped the loot on the steps of Holyoke Center, and fled...