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...failed, and the captive Gilman, could see their desperation increasing. FBI Agent Francis Crosby boarded the plane to negotiate. Becoming hysterical, Bearden said that he would commit suicide before he would let himself be killed or captured. Seeing an opening, the Border Patrol's Gilman shot out his fist, dropped the older hijacker with an uppercut so powerful that it fractured his own fist. The FBI man and Simmons sprang on young Cody Bearden and, after ten grueling hours, it was all over. The Beardens, handcuffed, were led off to face life sentences on charges of kidnaping and transporting...
Stewart plays the heavy convincingly, but Director Ford is not satisfied with the melodrama that falls out of the over turned cliché, and he switches tracks again. For those still willing to string along, there is a fist fight somewhat less solemn than a Laurel and Hardy pie throwing, then a lynching in which no last-minute rescuer shows up. Director Ford's effort might be compared to the pastime of a successful gunfighter who, between important assassinations, lies on his back in a hotel room, drinks dark ale, and obliterates with his six-gun all the flies...
...begins drafting the cartoon, first in pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter) to get the authentic look of a clenched fist, a tyrant's sneer, a trouser seat viewed from the rear...
...used to be able to get handouts from the Kubitschek government. "Not any more." says Quadros' Labor Minister Francisco de Castro Neves. "I'm not playing games with them. I deal directly with democratic union leaders, and with nobody else. Already we have torn open the clenched fist of Communist control of many unions." Says Quadros himself: "Communists only profit from the ignorance that afflicts many of my countrymen. They have no interest whatsoever in a democratic and prosperous Brazil. They seek only to exploit misery...
...possible we may have erred on the side of excessive caution and tolerance." If. as Salazar claimed, "the terrorist action was instigated and directed from the outside," why were so many natives involved in the uprisings? They are victims, replied the man who has ruled Portugal with an iron fist for 33 years, "of the classic technique of intimidation...