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Stiff Penalty. Such rousing football is typical of teams coached by Paul ("Bear") Bryant. (He played that way himself in the early '30s when he was the "wrong end" on a fine Alabama team that had its headlines hogged by a glue-fingered pass-grabber named Don Hutson.) Even on Monday afternoons, when other squads are still resting from their weekend's labors, the Aggies butt heads on their Brazos River practice fields...
...long run, the pull of personal ambition, the bent of Communist doctrine, and the lessons of Soviet experience (both Lenin and Stalin engraved personal dictatorship on the heart of the Communist state), are likely to impel one or another power-grabber to get too grabby. For the time being, however, Khrushchev, Bulganin & Co. seem to be resolved to make their committee work. Theirs is a community of interest in a good thing that they want to hang on to; a scuffle for power that jeopardized their police state might be the end of them all. One thing in their favor...
...McCarthy secretly disliked Schine because he was a publicity grabber...
...Raiders (Universal-International). According to this pseudohistorical western, California might never have become a state had it not been for hard-fighting Prospector Richard Conte. Backed up by a group of angry miners and homesteaders, Conte kills off crooked Land-Grabber Morris Ankrum, who is trying to keep California from statehood. Fortunately, just as Conte is about to be hanged for Ankrum's death, California joins the Union, a general amnesty is declared, and he is free to rejoin beautiful Viveca Lindfors, who plays the daughter of a dispossessed old Mexican family but speaks with a charming Swedish accent...
...Balance Wheel refers to a heavy-witted Pennsylvania Dutchman who is no more the hero of a novel than the dumpling in a dish of Sauerbraten. He just happens to sit in the middle of the concoction. His three brothers-a steel-fisted money-grabber, a radical of the Debs persuasion, a soft-fingered esthete-are all pulling in different directions, threatening to tear the family business apart. Loyal Charles, the balance wheel, tries to keep them all geared together, and the concern, a tool company, going straight down the middle of the road...