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...This is not a good dream life to offer adolescent lads . . . The hero is what they would like to be. Outwardly he is everything they are not: tall, broad-shouldered, very strong, very brave, attractive to the girls . . . Nothing new here: boys and youths have been identifying themselves with the Hero for thousands of years . . . But we might see to it that the Hero is not so often kicking people in the stomach and then smashing their faces into red pulp . . . It will be as well if the citizens of tomorrow do not take it for granted that people they...
Apache (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists) claims to follow in the bootsteps of High Noon and Shane, but it trips along the way. It stars Burt Lancaster in a fairly closeup view of the Indian brave, Massai, who refused to join Geronimo in a peace contract with the U.S. Army. The old chief and his warriors are shipped off to Florida reservations, but Massai escapes and decides to go it alone...
...greatest of Diem's immeasurable problems lay in the Asian truth that had already brought one-half of Indo-China crashing down into Communism: the Vietnamese who cared were less impressed by the brave intentions of powerless men, than by the ruthless success of the Communists in a faraway place called Geneva...
...troops through the streets of Hanoi. Tank-led paratroopers, Foreign Legionnaires, red-capped Senegalese and elite Vietnamese outfits marched smartly past General René Cogny, while 15 French paratroopers jumped spectacularly from a low-flying C-47 into a lake in the center of town. It was a brave affair, perhaps the biggest military display the French had staged in their 70 years in Hanoi; yet its flamboyance could not obscure the drab reality: Hanoi (pop. 600,000) was doomed...
...have sought to smear, besmirch and destroy my reputation will never be able to take away my spirit of optimism, because I will always be a ray of sunshine, a creator of gladness and master of myself. I have been a successful champion wrestler because I'm brave as a lion, strong as a mule, tough as a pine knot and sharp as a razor." He added: "I have the gift...