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...Innocents. A story of profound religious horror, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, has been diminished by Director Jack (Room at the Top) Clayton into a sophisticated psychiatric chiller. Deborah Kerr is exquisitely hysterical as the haunted heroine...
...OWEN CLAYTON Fort Worth...
...film, necessarily, the spectral prose is replaced by spooky images and scary noises. Some of them are eerily effective: Sheffield Park, the gorgeously rotting old Georgian mansion in which the film was mostly made, is a demon's dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children...
Under the Clayton Act of 1914, anybody who can prove that his business has been injured by another company's antitrust violations is entitled to damages amounting to three times the loss suffered. Along with the humiliation of being convicted of criminal price fixing ten months ago, the 29 companies involved in the great electrical-equipment conspiracy looked forward apprehensively to a flood of treble-damage claims. Last week their worst apprehensions came true as more than 60 public and private utility companies combined to file nearly 40 suits complaining that they had been overcharged on electrical equipment...
...attack on Randolph, for example, calls to mind Meany's dispute with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell. When segregationist Rep. Burdick of North Carolina retired in 1959 as Chairman of the mightly House Committee on Education and Welfare, Meany opposed Powell's succession violently. Powell's pro-labor voting record (and Burdick's anti-labor tally) were apparently inconsequential...