Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridges to Cross earns a profit, it will make its subject--the $2,500,000 Brink's robbery--look like petit larceny. The film's chances for financial success are limited, however, since it appeals mainly to Bostonians wanting to see some familiar scenes and to the robbery's original cast wanting to see some unfamiliar and ludicrously phoney ones. The Boston scenes, by the way, are real, for the Universal people were not satisfied with a cardboard Common. Unfortunately, however, they were perfectly satisfied with cardboard characterization and plot...
...Honduras (pop. 1,600,000), where the invaders of Guatemala gathered last spring, is a banana republic with too few bananas (because of storms). It is pulling back, under a dictator, from the brink of a revolution that threatened when no candidate got a majority in a three-way election (TIME, Dec. 20). Thus distracted, Honduras let some of last week's invaders of Costa Rica gather there and move on to Nicaragua...
...STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLS. VII-X, by Arnold Toynbee, brought to an end the most massive and controver sial historical inquiry since Spengler. It saw the West in a time of troubles, on the brink of becoming part of a world state, and ended by affirming that man can control his earthly destiny, but only by earning the grace...
...Elis picked up the safety in the first quarter when tallback Matt Botsford, with his back to the line of scrimmage, intercepted a Bob Brink pass on the Harvard two and was carried by his own momentum into the end zone where the intended receiver Byron Campbell tackled...
That safety looked increasingly imposing when the Elis moved 53 yards for a touchdown at the start of the third period. A 28-yard pass from Bob Brink to Al Ward set up the score, and a short flip from Brink to Campbell accounted...