Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Getting a cordial welcome and favorable response from Nehru, Black flew on to Karachi to test President Mohammed Ayub Khan and to exploit the feeling in both lands that this might be the last chance for a peace. Last week, boarding his plane for the U.S., Black said cheerfully: "We have reached agreement on certain principles, which we hope will lead to a final settlement." Reserved though the statement was, it is the best news on the Indus waters that anyone has reported since the bloody days of partition...
...Section 10 was a paid ad ($52,000) for Columbia's yet-to-be-released epic, They Came to Cordura, starring Cooper, Hayworth, Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. It was eloquent testimony to Columbia's big bet on Cordura-$250,000 for the book (about "Black Jack" Pershing's punitive expedition against Pancho Villa), $4,500,000 for the production. As for the Sunday Times, it might never completely recover its customary dignity after the headline on the Hayworth article: Sex Goddess Goes Straight. But Columbia feels the ad will "raise the stature of the movie business...
...passionately sincere, pictorially brilliant, monumentally silly example of how people who are obsessed with the race question tend to see everything in Black and White. In this instance, the audience is asked to believe that when most of humanity has been wiped out by a cloud of radioactive sodium, the three people who have managed to save their skins will spend most of their time worrying about the color of them...
...good. But then the moviemakers feel obliged to give their black Adam a white Eve (Inger Stevens), and all at once the grand drama of humanity's survival collapses into an irrelevant wrangle about racial discrimination that has no more real significance, under the circumstances of the story, than a hotfoot in hell. Adam and Eve fall in love, but Adam refuses to accept the fact. He cannot begin a new world because he cannot forget the old; he cannot let social injustice die with the society that fostered it. At this point the moviemakers introduce a particularly amiable...
...Which boy will get the girl? In this instance, the answer is intended to answer the race question, but since Actor Belafonte's skin seems just about as light as Actor Ferrer's, the audience may justifiably wonder if the question itself is not almost academic. Anyway, black boy gets white girl-or seems to. But then in the confusing finish (which was reshot after a big front-office foofaraw), all three wander off together hand in hand-with the girl in the middle...