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...good shape and the peso at its perkiest in years, Mexico was in fiesta mood for President Miguel Alemán's fourth annual state-of-the-nation message last week. As the President rode to the Chamber of Deputies at the head of a 50-limousine caravan, office girls showered him with red, green and white confetti. When Alemán entered the Chamber, 50 men from the musicians' union rose and thundered the national anthem. Outside, thousands of Mexicans saw and heard their President speak over hundreds of television sets installed in cantinas, clubs...
...foreshadowed in scenes of a barbaric tournament. But when they pillage and burn Chinese cities, the picture has nothing to show for it but some lines of post-mortem dialogue and a pillar of fiery smoke on the far horizon. An oily merchant announces that he is sending a caravan to Kublai Khan with rich gifts, including 81 beautiful women; Director Hathaway shows plenty of caravan, but he never brings on the dancing girls...
...scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
Inside the Laeken palace grounds, soldiers rushed to the entrance gates. They shook the hands of demonstrators, who cried: "The army is with us!" The crowd came face to face with lines of black-helmeted gendarmes, who thrust them back. When a caravan of buses and automobiles bringing pro-Leopoldists from Ghent approached the palace, it was met by a volley of paving stones and bricks thrown by the demonstrators...
...against some obstacles: hostile Indians, a stagecoach tycoon bent on thwarting the railroad, and the dispiriting fact that the road has run out of track in the 40-mile stretch between Epitaph and Dead Horse Point. With one reluctant paying passenger (Dan Dailey) firmly tied to the locomotive, a caravan headed by a sharpshooting lady peace officer (Anne Baxter) sets out to haul the engine by mule to the point where the track begins again. Among those along for the ride: Madame Adelaide and her dance-hall girls (who can dance...