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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general court-martial, Huller pleaded guilty of graft, had his three-year hard-labor sentence reduced to a year and a half and a bad-conduct discharge. But Coogan, ever the operator even in the stockade awaiting trial, was caught trying to tamper with one of the witnesses, slapped with 15 years' hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. The system out of which the sergeant and the specialist made a flourishing business, said the Army hopefully, had been forever thwarted by a new assignment system, controlled directly from Washington...
...wing while formulating a policy that would appeal to the nation as a whole. Last week, as the biggest union of all-the powerful (1,300,000 members) Transport and General Workers-met for its biennial conference on the Isle of Man, Gaitskell's problems seemed weightier than ever...
Last week, as crowds outside the Lugazi police station chanted, "We want to see the cannibals," the widow and her three accomplices were in jail pending inquiry into a murder charge. Said one of the defendants matter-of-factly: "It was the sweetest meat I ever tasted...
Technically, the movie causes curiosity about how the Reds ever got Sputnik off the launching pad. Filmed with three different cameras simultaneously, the images are separated on the wide screen by blurry stripes from top to bottom. The sound track is unpleasantly thunderous, and the Soviet scriptwriters have produced a painful brand of Americanese, delivered through stereophonic loudspeakers located south by southeast of the viewer's ear. Horrible example: "Gee. I'd like to fly on a TU-1O4," says the lady narrator. Reply from the Russian guide (south by southwest): "I think it's just...
...love (Wynter) and duty. In the novel, the hero resolved it by selling his friends to the Tans; according to the script, the peace treaty conveniently gets him off the hook, and only the diehard Cagney has to die. Best bit: a dockside rumble in which Cagney. jazzy as ever with his side arms, sputters some real far-out riffs on his revolver. Worst fault: the inconsistency of speech. Four of the featured players speak the king's English. Two of them talk plain American. Only the bit-players, picked up from the Abbey Theater and other Dublin companies...