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...there they are. Grown men playing in the world's biggest sandbox and wondering how on God's green earth they got there. They bicker, they drink, they gamble, they bicker. By day the sun, by night frustration fries them. As the womanless weeks go by, they turn into wild-eyed wolves who would tear each other to pieces for a fresh young chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In a Great Big Sandbox | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...about five years ago." It took almost that long to find and prepare a suitable script, and None but the Brave seems worth the delay. A sort of World War II in miniature, the story tells of two groups of Japanese and American soldiers on a Pacific island who bicker internally and battle externally until they are driven to declare a truce. But the hard-won armistice ends in mutual and inevitable annihilation. Defined by the director as "an integrated picture," its stars are 17 Japanese actors who cannot speak English,* 18 Americans who insist that they can, and Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: King of the Birds | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...Without Bicker or Bother. Below the northern tier is the Black Belt, cutting a 100-mile-deep, 14-county swath across the state. The Black Belt got its name not so much for its concentration of Negroes as for its fertile dark brown soil. Once the heart of Alabama's cotton kingdom, the rolling, sparsely populated belt has changed radically in recent years: the houses where cotton sharecroppers once lived are now stuffed with hay to feed cattle, for livestock raising has become Alabama's No. 1 agricultural business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where the Stars Fall | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...streets, and botanical gardens featuring beautiful azaleas and camellias. Though the harbor is Mobile's chief resource, industry too has come to town: Alcoa is there, along with a couple of paper mills and a fast-growing chemical industry. Like Huntsville, Mobile quietly desegregated its lunch counters without bicker or bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where the Stars Fall | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...hundred per cent bicker was achieved at Princeton this year, with every sophomore who wanted a bid to an eating club getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seek Conservative Eli Faculty | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

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