Word: geralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CENTER OF THE STAGE (290 pp.)-Gerald Sykes-Farrar, Straus & Young...
General Sir Gerald Templer, Britain's crisp, aggressive High Commissioner for Malaya, is slowly gaining ground in his war with the Red guerrillas. He has some 400,000 troops, police and home guards against about 5,000 Communists. Malaya is laced with barbed wire, crisscrossed with searchlights, webbed with interlocking patrols. More & more Malays and Chinese are whispering against the bandits, although many fear Red reprisals. Templer recently uprooted 66 men, women & children from one village and put them in a detention camp for failing to inform against Communist assassins...
...some brisk fight scenes. It also makes a few telling points about intolerance with some blunt sequences, shot in & around actual Los Angeles locations, of discrimination against Mexican-Americans in drive-in restaurants, bars and skating rinks. Lalo Rios as the boy, Rita Moreno as his girl and Gerald Mohr as a prizefight manager play their parts naturally. The Ring is no main bout, but it is a thoroughly satisfactory preliminary...
Christian Nationalist. For President (without his consent), General Douglas MacArthur; for Vice President (without his consent), California State Senator Jack B. Tenney. Blood brother to rabble-rousing Gerald L. K. Smith's antiSemitic, anti-Negro Christian Nationalist Crusade, the Christian Nationalist Party has filed for a place on the Texas and Missouri ballots...
...allowed to look at the outer world on television. Before one of the sisters' discussion sessions, it was discovered that a priest was to address them on the subject of modern comforts and conveniences. Up rose a seven-member nuns' committee to protest. Said Mother Mary Gerald, O.P., "Why should any man tell us about our comforts and conveniences?" Four nuns were hastily scheduled to speak in the priest's place...