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...Russian support for its bid for U.N. membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader, but the man most frequently tagged as their boss is slender, ferret-faced Ku Kip, a Chinese Communist veteran who saw service under notorious Comintern Agent Michael Borodin...
Slow & Easy. Regardless of hereditary tendencies, the actual onset of stuttering always seems to be associated with some psychological upset. At the hospital Dr. Greene and the medical staff try to ferret out the cause, then to remove it by teaching "emotional control." The watchword of the institution is Relax. Patients of all ages are taught to relax, by physical training and just lying still-youngsters on mattresses on the floor, adults in underslung steamer chairs. The walls are plastered with signs: "Slow-Easy...
Chief attraction was the leader, Giorgio Almirante, small-time journalist and propagandist formerly in Mussolini's service, who, after the Duce's fall, made a living as a messenger boy and traveling salesman. A ferret-like little man, he stood behind the microphone while the delegates cheered. Said he: "I stand at attention before the legion of sorrow." He continued: "They say we are sentimentalists, that we long for a past which died with one man. But we are like the apostles who gained their faith through the martyrdom of Christ...
...these methods fail, there are plenty of other viruses to try against cancer. Some of them, comparatively harmless to normal human tissue, may attack tumors. If some such virus could be found or developed, it would be an ideal anti-cancer drug. Circulating through the body like a ferret through rat holes, it could hunt down every gangster cell...
Raft, whose natural deadpan registers not the slightest difference between one script and the next, takes these exotic frills in his usual dapper stride. He seems happy puttering about among his orchids and potted petunias until the government sends him off on a mission. His job: to ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine...