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...cash. Guaranteed ?100,000 apiece, these amiable scalawags form an unregistered corporation called "Cooperative Removals, Ltd." From there out, the picture becomes simultaneously a sort of rollicking Rififi and a hilarious parody of the last skaty-eight milidramas from Blimey. The major organizes his gang as a commando, runs it by "Queen's Regs," soon whips together a unit that makes up in morale what it lacks in morality. "England," says the colonel proudly, "always supplies the right man for the job. Even if it's the wrong job." Along the sound track at appropriate moments float snatches...
...Fuentes an nounced that the strip had been built to promote the export of bananas, meat and shrimp. But the field was immediately put off limits to all civil aircraft. Last Oct. 14 a band of Ydigoras' opponents complained in Congress that hundreds of Cubans were being given commando training by U.S. instructors at the air-base and at several coffee plantations in the area - including one owned by a close friend of the President. As evidence, they cited reports from a carpenter who had worked on the airfield and a butcher who was supposedly supplying one coffee plan...
Ydigoras quickly admitted that Guatemalan troops were receiving special commando training on the plantations, but denied that any Cubans were involved. Combing the area at the time, investigating reporters found that the facts supported Ydigoras: there was no trace of any major Cuban force...
...people already dead, Ngo Dinh Diem still held out in his barricaded palace. Emissaries shuttled back and forth between the two sides. Diem offered to fire his Cabinet but refused the rebel demand that he resign. Diem's stubborn courage began to pay off. Marine, infantry and commando units moved into the city and, after wavering all night, declared their loyalty to him. Outmanned, the paratroopers fled. When a throng of civilians advanced on the palace waving "Diem Must Go" signs, the pro-Diem marines fired point-blank into the packed crowd, killing at least six and wounding dozens...
Danny's eleven consists of himself and ten other ruffians, all former members of a commando-like World War II unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. The old soldiers are played by such members of Sinatra's off-screen Clan as Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr., and a jollier lot has not tripped the screen since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Their idea of a veterans' meeting is not to salute the flag and then sit down to play pinochle; they decide, with the help of an imaginative racketeer (Akim Tamiroff...