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...Victors. Dismayed by Hollywood's handling of The Bridge on the River Kwai, which he wrote, and The Guns of Navarone, which he wrote and produced, Carl Foreman wrote, produced, and this time directed an epic he calls a "personal statement" about the futility of war. Both victor and vanquished are losers, Foreman says. Then he says it again. His film delivers not one statement but a whole barrage of them, all strung together in newsreel clips and hit-or-miss dramatic vignettes that pound, pound, pound...
...story begins in England, 1942. Two young G.I.s, played by George Hamilton and George Peppard, are members of a U.S. Army squad that Foreman follows to Sicily, to D-day and France, and finally to the Soviet zone of Berlin. In Sicily, Hamilton spurns Betty Grable pinups for shots of Soviet recruits. "I'd like to meet a Russian G.I. sometime, some day," he moons. His odd fixation presages the picture's climax-a senseless knife fight between Hamilton and a Russian soldier (Albert Finney), who slay one another in the ruins of Berlin...
...unconvincing scene, a muddled plea for brotherhood, G.I.s gape idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys gun down a puppy. There are looting episodes too. But when Foreman's lads grow misty-eyed over a music box waltz, they prove they are vandals with heart...
...bankrupt Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp.-clammed up. Allied set off the whole mess through its headlong speculation in vegetable-oil futures, and its failure to meet margin requirements brought down Wall Street's venerable Ira Haupt Co. Last week pudgy "Tino" DeAngelis, a onetime foreman in a New York hog-processing company, walked into a New Jersey courtroom crowded with 50 law yers who hoped for some answers. To the exasperation of all, DeAngelis took the Fifth Amendment 58 times in re sponse to questions...
Muller said that manual laborers were referred to Buildings and Grounds either through employment offices or because they were acquainted with someone on the work force. In most instances, he said, the foreman of the crew involved made the hiring decisions. Hiring for the staff of the department is the responsibility of the director, Cecil A. Roberts...