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...batteries under rock cover. To fill Viet Minh bellies, 50,000 Chinese coolies bicycled in relays down the narrow mountain footpaths, each straining under a load of 600 lbs. of sacked rice. From November to mid-March, while his 60,000 guerrilla troops sparred with patrols from the fortress, Guerrilla General Giap quietly laid his noose around Dienbienphu. Then one morning Viet Minh artillery boomed a death knell...
More discriminating moviegoers will see at once that this 2nd century Rome is really that special, insular world of the cinema spectacular, a mise en scene now as familiar as Main Street. Producer Samuel Bronston constructed a mammoth Roman fortress and filled 250 acres of a Spanish plain with a full-scale reproduction of the Roman Forum as it existed circa A.D. 180. Bronston's Rome is patently too fabulous to have been built in a day, but it doesn't look lived-in either. Director Anthony Mann makes it a picture-book setting aswarm with extras behaving...
...fired after a binge climaxed by the attempted arson of Claverly Hall. It was 1938, and de Antonio went to work on the docks to wait for America to enter the War. By 1945 he had flown thirty-eight bombing missions over Japan as the pilot of a Flying Fortress...
...desert, though, he found himself in an archaeological paradise. He wandered through the ancient lands on the far side of the Jordan, Bible in hand, and everywhere he found traces of ancient people. Usually potsherds told him who they were. Other explorers may have reported a ruined fortress on a hill and a low tell beyond it. If inscriptions were lacking, as they generally were, only vague guesses, based on general appearance, could set the age of the find. Glueck was the first to determine that the fort was built in the reign of a specific king of Judah...
...Frederik Scholander wanted to know, because the information might help to save lives threatened by suffocation. The answer, he learned, is that the body takes heroic measures to protect its inner fortress - the brain, lungs and heart itself. In accomplishing this, the rest of the body is starved of blood, a process that may have unwanted and dangerous side effects...