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...gorge, under the eyes and weapons of Jordanians perched on the hills. You feel it on the narrow-gauge railway that winds into the city alongside Jordan territory so close that sunflower seeds spat from the train windows fall onto Arab soil. Where Jordan bulges westward, the Israeli beachhead is barely eight miles wide. It takes less than 20 minutes to drive from Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean to the Jordan border...
...Beachhead (Aubrey Schenck; United Artists) is one of those Hollywood adventures apparently based on the payroll schedule. Extras die like flies; bit players are allowed to put up a fight; second leads are wounded and nobly keep telling the others to go forward and leave them to perish miserably. But the hero and heroine come through it all with little more than a touch of sweat and a careful smudge on the off-profile...
...routine as it is, Beachhead is fairly exciting stuff. Tony Curtis and Frank Lovejoy are sent ashore on a Japanese-held island to risk their leathernecks in a pre-invasion reconnaissance. Then soldiering gives way to smooching when Tony finds Mary Murphy, the daughter of a French planter, in her jungle hideaway. The enemy, however, keeps the lovebirds, as well as the action, on the wing through the full-colored, gorgeous jungle on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, where Beachhead was filmed...
Sharp fighting did break out, however, when the French combined this landing with an overland attack towards the new beachhead, from the general direction of Saigon. The objective: to winkle the Communists out of the.hills, back down to the French on the coast. The veteran French battalion from Korea moved expertly through the limestone hills, followed by a green, Vietnamese nationalist division, 10,000 strong. They surprised a Communist encampment and inflicted considerable losses. Loyal mountain tribesmen in loincloths attacked a Communist post with their coup coup knives and captured a Communist flag...
...After 70 years of ups & downs, the civil service had spread its patriarchal protection over 95% of all 2,500,000 federal employees. Ike had trouble getting a toe hold on 900 top policymaking jobs in Washington for his own appointees. Last week, however, the Administration won a sizable beachhead in its battle with the burrowed bureaucrats...