Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also knew how to do favors for the powerful. In 1949 the daughter of Vice President Fernando Lopez divorced her American husband, who got custody of their two-year-old son. Lewin helped her kidnap the boy in New Mexico, make it to San Francisco after a breakneck car-and-plane chase, and eventually reach safety in Manila...
...first his people called him "Show-boy." Then he became his government's Prime Minister. This year he became his Queen's Privy Councilor. His local admirers now also refer to him as First Citizen of the African Continent. But when it comes to titles, there seems to be no stopping Kwame Nkrumah, 50. Last week the Accra Evening News, one of the Prime Minister's more effusive admirers (it manages to run one or more pictures of him almost every day), announced that next March the people of Ghana would get a chance to decide...
...boy learns early to "defend" himself, as the French say. Naturally independent, he soon becomes a proficient liar, steals from his mother's purse, cheats in class, plays hooky. Finally the boy decides to "faire les quatre cents coups" (go for broke). He runs away from home, and to get money steals a typewriter from his father's office. He tries to sell it, finds he cannot, and is caught when he returns the machine. Horrified, his father takes him to the police station "to teach him a lesson." The children's court sends...
Desperate, the boy escapes. He runs and runs. At last he reaches the sea. He can go no farther. Bewildered and heartsick, he turns back to face life, society, the audience. And at that instant the camera stops. A life is arrested, an existence fades into the sort of candid camera photograph that can be seen every day in the tabloids...
Third Man on the Mountain. Walt Disney's cliff hanger for the kids, who will probably believe that rock climbing is the spectacular cinch it seems to be in this film, and will certainly enjoy the entirely fictional story about a boy who showed the grownups how to climb the Matterhorn...