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...portion of the tape played to Judge Aldrich yesterday seemed directly to contradict Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's testimony that Kamin was present in the hearing room when he discussed the purposes for which Kamin had been called. The tape included a phrase not recorded in the transcript: After McCarthy had explained the hearing's purpose and said Kamin would be the first witness, a voice said, "I believe Mr. Kamin is in the side room...
...production of 319 is no better than its contents. Its writing is on the whole wooden and filled with cliches. There is a conspicuous lack of a copy desk. Not only do a few individual articles directly contradict one another, but there is far too much editorialization, particularly in the articles about undergraduate organizations. And words such as ensconced, collegian, frosh, and soph, should never, ever, see print. A few articles, however, showed a real attempt to get away from the rigid confines imposed by the nature of a yearbook. Those on the chess and bridge clubs...
...show depth and good characterization. Denholm Elliott, as Wilson the clerk, Peter Finch, as Father Rank, and Gerard Oury as Yusef all contribute positively in small ways. Yusef's dialogues with Scobie provide some of the scarce light spots of the evening, but because of their disturbing implications never contradict the overall tone of the film...
...Anthony Eden flew into Bangkok annoyed and disappointed with Secretary of State Dulles. Dulles' New York speech, carrying a U.S. pledge to defend the offshore islands if they were invaded as part of an assault on Formosa, seemed to flatly contradict Eden's hopes that Dulles was coming to agree that the islands should be given up. In Britain, while Eden was aloft on the way to Bangkok, the Labor Party was giving the government a rough time. "The danger of war in the Far East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson...
...here," an employee punned, "you're all Walt in." The studio atmosphere, says a former executive, is one of "compulsory democracy." The lowliest ink-girl calls Walt by his first name. "If we didn't," says one employee, "we'd get fired." Says another: "If you contradict him, you're out. Even the top creators at the studio have to be careful. Nothing is really funny until it's proclaimed funny...