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...story outline is familiar enough to newspaper readers: Angel Chavez, a teenage boy of Mexican descent, is on trial for the murder of a girl who died of a heart attack when Angel made a crude pass at her. Glenn Ford, as a young university law instructor who is out for trial experience, takes on the boy's case in association with a shrewd legal eagle played by Arthur...
Before Ford can get his case moving, he discovers that Kennedy has brought in the huge propaganda machinery of the "All-People's Party." Kennedy even works up a milling, militant "Free Angel Chavez Rally" in Madison Square Garden. He packs the place with hard-core Communists, hot-eyed hangers-on, droning speechmakers and "entertainers." Kennedy collects his defense funds, and the party has its martyr, as well as its unsuspecting suckers. Next step: the conviction of Angel Chavez as a springboard for anticapitalist propaganda...
...Author Mankiewicz, 32, nephew of movie Writer-Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town," Angel Chavez makes his first fumbling pass at a local girl on a restricted stretch of San Juno's beach one night, and she drops dead of a rheumatic heart. A brassy, card-carrying lawyer named Barney Castle helps save the boy from a lynch mob and takes...
Hollywood Bowl Concert (Mon. 8p.m., NBC). Conductor Carlos Chavez, with Violinist Mischa Elman...
While other Senators debated whether or not to oust him and declare vacant the seat he had held for 19 years, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez slumped in his chair like a weary gnome. The Senate had spent some $225,000 to investigate irregularities in the 1952 New Mexico senatorial election, in which Chavez edged out Republican Patrick Hurley. When the vote came, every Democratic Senator was present, and they stood with Chavez to the last man-along with five Republicans and Wayne Morse. By a vote of 53 to 36, the U.S. Senate decided to keep...