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...near Towang. killed a number of Communist troops and returned to its lines without loss. A heavier attack was mounted outside Walong where, after an artillery barrage, 1,000 Indian jawans (G.I.s) stormed into "the forward slopes of the Chinese position in spite of heavy enemy fire." The Chinese counterattack was beaten off and, at day's end the fighting flared north and west of Walong as the Chinese tried to pinch off the Indian salient in their lines...
With that, Zanuck launched his counterattack. "Remember," he proclaimed, "I'm a practical picturemaker, not a fool. I have done my duty to my corporation and-yes-to myself." Mankiewicz, he said, was fired because he demanded full control over Cleopatra, a right Zanuck feels must be reserved for himself. Worse, Mankiewicz wasted vast amounts of money-$7,500,000 by Zanuck's reckoning: Richard Burton worked only one of the first 17 weeks he spent in Rome; Roddy McDowall was called to the set only once in four months; sets were built at hurry-up costs, then...
...most of his jaw shot off in Bougainville," and served three terms as Governor of Minnesota. These points are true enough, but irrelevant. All Kennedy said about Freeman as Secretary was that the job had been "challenging." Having made a weak defense, Kennedy followed up with a weak counterattack...
...them from their cellar refuge and finds himself looking down the barrel of a Thompson gun. The blowhard captain arrives, sermonizes plaintively at the figures crouched around the huge, 9-ft. candles, and is told to take his precious behind back to headquarters. He leaves. The Germans counterattack. The men are killed...
Parental Heels. The pressures are most acute in middle-class suburban communities, where the need for keeping up with the Joneses' little girl is most acutely felt. One successful counterattack against the trend is group action. In Charlotte, N.C., for example, some parents have organized a Parents' League to set up "recommendations" for social activities from the sixth grade on. By mutually standing fast, they have been able to fend off that age-old blackmail of the young, "Well, Susie's mother lets her . . ." Sixth-grade parties are all male or all female, and they...