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Little John is a "free" (unguided) rocket descended from the crude but operational Honest John. It is small enough to be transported in ordinary trucks, and will do the duty of divisional artillery. Little John is big enough to carry an atomic charge, and many can be fired at the same time, so the effect behind enemy lines should be considerable...
Actually the companies are already paying more than 50-50, the government pointed out; with tax adjustments, the present operators have lately been paying 56-44. As to the additional "advantages" Venezuela will expect, Perez Jimenez wants concessionaires to 1) refine new-found crude in Venezuela, 2) build "open cities" instead of company-town oil camps, and 3) conserve natural...
More serious flaws lie in the performance of the general, Harvey Stephens, who stutters and seems generally ineffectual, and in the entire conception of the part of Sergeant Baker. The sergeant, played by Frank Aletter, is a little too delicate for the crude lines he is given, but the main trouble is that in the Army sergeants simply do not assault colonels, not even verbally. The sergeant's function to provide friction--thus making the colonel's refusal to abandon the case seem more heroic--would be better fulfilled by a quiet, grumbling misunderstanding than by his present direct attack...
...acting is probably not the main reason why Dreyfus is not quite satisfactory today, though it was once bailed as a classic. The picture is, after all, a quarter of a century old. By modern standards, the technical facilities available to Richard Oswald, the producer and director, were extremely crude, and he did the best he could with them. Futhermore, Oswald's decision to make a picture about anti-Semitism was an act of considerable moral courage in the Germany of 1930. When Hitler came to power three years later, the film was banned. Therefore, despite its shortcomings as drama...
...Crude Interference." The source of Khrushchev's anger at the U.S. shows how sensitive the Soviet Union is about its own rugged form of colonialism. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles had sent Christmas messages to European satellite countries, expressing U.S. faith in their eventual liberation. Huffed Khrushchev: "The American authors of these far from religious 'Christmas' messages [are] desirous of changing the order of things. This in no way accords with the spirit of Geneva and is crude interference in the internal affairs of free and sovereign states...