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...last of the Indian band which had massacred Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and 250 troopers of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Now the buffalo were gone and the white man had taken their Black Hills. Said one irascible old brave: "I wish my people were strong enough to get them back...
...people, who had respected her before, loved her now. But the brave simplicity of the war days and the war aims was gone. The Dutch colonies, on which the nation's prosperity heavily depended, were in revolt. Said the old Queen proudly: "Een Oranje dringt zijn diensten nimmer op" (An Orange never forces his services on anyone). One of her young advisers said recently: "She hoped too much. She has been disappointed too much." This week, at 68, after half a century of rule, she leaves the throne in favor of her sturdy daughter, 39-year-old Juliana. Schoolchildren...
...economic expert in China saw the program as a bold, brave effort to pull the nation out of its desperate economic slough. But the issue of new currency would have to be backed by honest and efficient execution of the rest of the government's promised fiscal reform, which would hit many of China's privileged where it hurt...
...rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." So declaims the unadjustable hero of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's satiric fable about a totally efficient, totally soulless Utopia. This defense of the unreconstructed individual, who refuses to run with the mob, is a central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed...
Newcomer Scott Brady (brother of Cinemactor Lawrence Tierney), who plays the most redeemable of the fugitives, has a likely future on the screen, and Mabel Paige is fine as the very frightened, very brave old woman who conks the deadliest character (well played by Jeff Corey). Warden Roy Best is unaffected and unembarrassed as Warden Roy Best...