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Since war's end fierce Hukbalahap gangs have tried, with the same guerrilla tactics they used against the Japs, to enforce ex-President Osmena's decree dividing crops 60-40 in favor of the peasant. But new President Manuel Roxas refused to com promise with revolt. He sent in 5,000 military police, who soon had the "Huks" under control...
Convair has also started to build a military transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen. On the drawing boards is an even larger commercial version which is expected to haul up to 275 passengers. But Convair has no orders for the commercial transport (Model 37) as yet. Pan American Airways has plugged Convair's Model 37 in ads for more than two years. But even Pan Am has placed no solid order...
Outside the Parliament Building, tulips bloomed and strollers idled along sun drenched walks. Inside, the House of Com mons was being told that Canada was in for a cold, tough winter. Reason: the coal strike in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS). Said Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: "The Canadian position will be very serious. . . . I am much more alarmed . . . than I was at any time during the war." Two days later the truce in the strike was reached. But even a final settlement would not mean coal for Canada right away. U.S. bins would probably have to be filled...
...which was never christened an "Organization?" Manhattan dailies unanimously agreed to make a short headline word even shorter, although the sensitive Sun protested that UN is "merely a negative grunt . . . not half so pleasing to ear or tongue." Even the UNhospitable Daily News, which wants the outfit to get "com pletely out of the United States" (to northwest Mexico), went along. The press seemed willing to give U.N., at least on little things, every break...
This time, the horses engendered no com plaint. At last there had been brought to the screen, with such sweetness, vigor, insight and beauty that it seemed to have been written yesterday, a play by the greatest dramatic poet who ever lived. It had never been done before.* For Laurence Olivier, 38 (who plays Henry and directed and produced the picture), the event meant new stature. For Shakespeare, it meant a new splendor in a new, vital medium. Exciting as was the artistic development of Laurence Olivier, last seen by U.S. cinemaddicts in films like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights...