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...hope . . . that Ike's scantily clad platitudes become as well-tailored as Adlai Stevenson's sentences-spats...
...that blew across it, burying in snow every object in its path: who drove for hour after hour through that no-man's-land only at last to find too thin shelter with insufficiently clothed, half-starved men: and who also saw by contrast the well-fed, warmly clad and fresh Siberians, fully equipped for winter fighting: only a man who knew all that can truly judge the events which now occurred...
While white-clad Vietnamese waiters served the course, a column of native soldiers in the green French Union battle-dress emerged from the jungle-covered mountain which overlooks the Cap and marched up to the lighted dining hall in columns of two. They were armed with regulation grenades and Sten guns and carried machetes. The first grenade, thrown from the kitchen, killed Bartender Tuyen instantly. Vietnamese Cook Nguyen Van Loc played dead, but a green-clad soldier poured boiling water on him, and when he squirmed, shot him. In the hallway other green-clad soldiers shot down the Perrin children...
Oddly enough, the two castaways do not hit it off at first. Lieut. Smythe pulls rank on the corporal and calls him an "unpleasant brat"; he responds by calling her a "sourpuss." But in due course things get back to normal, and they are seen bounding along the beach clad in breezy tropical raiment and quaffing coconut milk. Unfortunately, their tropical paradise is short-lived, for a handsome R.A.F. pilot (Donald Gray) crash-lands on the island...
...brought home to the Italian industry by Bitter Rice, a second-rate movie with arty pretensions and a nodding gesture to social problems (the exploitation of women workers in Italy's rice fields). Bitter Rice turned out to be a brilliant showcase for the tightly clad, womanly figure of Silvana Mangano, who helped make the picture the biggest-grossing foreign-language film ever shown in the U.S. Now the Italians have made a picture entitled Sensuality, starring Newcomer Eleonora Rossi-Drago, with which they expect to clean up in the U.S.-if it gets by the censors...