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...fears a steel strike, is lukewarm to demands for greater wages, fearing that they might cost him his job (TIME, May 4). To refute Lubell, McDonald arranged for seven of his wage-policy committeemen to stand up in public meeting and demand hefty wage raises. Said one: "A lynching bee would look like a Sunday-school picnic compared to what my members would do to me if I told them I voted not to ask for a wage increase...
...Bee's Gas Station...
Ochlophobia. In Bumble Bee, Ariz, (four houses, one general store), Prospector Don Netherlan, 81, was missing for two weeks, later explained to worried friends:"! just had to get out of the city...
...Finns still joke about their position; "We are a bee in the pants of the Soviet Union; they outnumber us fifty to one, but we put up a better fight." But, lacking the economic independence of Poland and Yugoslavia, they cannot make a break with Russia. The path they tread is narrow indeed...
Still, there are moments when the hard-digging moviemakers strike it fairly rich. There are a couple of good fights, and a lynching bee in which the many-legged mob moves with the terrifying instinctual coordination and single-mindlessness of a colossal millipede gone mad. Karl Maiden makes a memorably silly-sinister billy goat. Actress Schell, holding a hard rein on her sentimental excesses, gives a gracious, intelligent performance. And though Actor Cooper, when required to produce the piercingly analytic stare, can do no more than push out his chin and look as though he is about to whinny...