Word: forster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military mission in Guatemala City, and headed down Avenida de las Americas. Ten blocks from the mission, a dark green sedan carrying three men pulled alongside, and one of them suddenly opened up with a machine gun. "I instinctively hit the dirt," recalled Sgt. Major John R. Forster, who was wounded in the hand. Chief Petty Officer Harry Green caught a bullet in the spine. Sitting in the front seat, Colonel John D. Webber, 47, head of the mission and driver of the car, and Lieut. Commander Ernest A. Munro, 40, chief of the mission's naval section, took...
...TRAVELS OF MAUDIE TIPSTAFF by Margaret Forster. 251 pages. Stein...
Maudie accepts the permanency of her alienation and returns home with the words: "Everyone is on their own." What sets Author Forster's trim, sparklingly clear little novel apart from other studies in loneliness is her attitude toward her central character. Though she is unsparing of Maudie, she also treats her with care and a humored understanding that demonstrates how it is-and why-that the loveless get by in the world...
Brando as usual plays with vocal characterization, coming up with his version of the clipped speech pattern of a southern army major. Brando's performance comes off well, his face mirroring the tensions of a man first discovering then stoking an attraction for another man. The enlisted man (Robert Forster) doesn't say much more than two words during the entire film. He spends most of the time riding around naked on an old mare, and the rest sniffing Miss Taylor's clothes in her room at night while she lies sleeping nearby...
...only one of their woes. There are also protests against big premium increases, abrupt policy cancellations and lax state regulation of fly-by-night companies. The $9 billion-a-year auto insurance business is in such parlous shape that James J. Meyers, vice president for claims of the Crum & Forster insurance group, says the whole works may well become "a dying industry unless we reappraise our practices...