Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, on a British-owned farm, 200 workers-victims of the Burumatare syndrome-quit work in terror, refused to return to their jobs in spite of the owner's attempts to reassure them. "Our hearts are different to yours, master," they said. At the suggestion of his African foreman, the farmer painted 200 rubber bands white and slipped one on the wrist of each laborer. Only then did the local natives finally return to work, confident in the power of the white master's juju magic...
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...Carl Foreman-once blacklisted by Hollywood and now able to relish the sight of his name in the seven-league titles that proclaim him writer and producer of Guns-has left out nothing but the butterfly from All Quiet on the Western Front. There is the cracked-up veteran who has seen too much (Stanley Baker), the wounded hero who begs to be left behind (Anthony Quayle), the American immigrant G.I. returning to his native village (James Darren), the cynical explosives expert (David Niven), the unresisting resistance heroines (Irene Pappas and Gia Scala), the good German, the bad German. There...
None of this matters in the least. Too much respect for tradition never hurt a fairy tale; the important thing is the telling. Film Maker Foreman and Director J. Lee Thompson (Tiger Bay) send their Jacks up the beanstalk at double time, and keep them moving by setting off enough gunpowder to supply South America's politicians for a decade. The saboteurs, especially Quinn and Actress Pappas, are an agreeable lot of brigands, and if their destruction of the giant and their eventual escape down the beanstalk are thoroughly predictable, what perverse child would have it otherwise...
Michigan State University's Ted Petrie, 21, is the first student in M.S.U. history to graduate with a straight-A record. Son of a foreman at an Oldsmobile forge plant in Lansing, Petrie sagged below A only twice in high school (B's in gym and English literature) "because I didn't work." At M.S.U., where he eased the financial pinch by living at home and working summers as a lifeguard, he found time for swimming, handball and bottle-ball as well as math. Awarded hefty grants for undergraduate research by the National Science Foundation, Petrie...