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...test their skills, improvising scenes on park benches and in crowded bars, making speeches before street loungers to see how well they could handle audiences. Her first big-girl role (at 16) was opposite James Dean in Rebel; it won her an Oscar nomination and a smooth transition into grownup films...
...boys are furious. War, real grownup war at last, not five kilometers away, and here they sit like schoolboys playing bang-you're-dead at the edge of their own home town. They dig in to defend the bridge, and suddenly the Americans are upon them. The last hour of the film is pure Schreck, a minutely observed, almost unwatchable massacre of the innocents...
...university men-all working at everything from repairing bicycles in Kenya to aiding sick Eskimos in Labrador. Wrote one Southeast Asian official: "Send us the best you have, as many as possible, and as quickly as you can." The stripling volunteers have shouldered responsibilities that would turn a grownup grey-or green with envy. In Sarawak, a 19-year-old boy, lately a factory apprentice, is in sole charge of a primary school, a first-aid clinic and a rubber plantation. In the Solomon Islands, one pink-cheeked girl recently delivered a native woman's twins. In British Guiana...
...Lionel, Medaris will earn $50,000 a year, plus an option on 20,000 shares of Lionel stock pegged at 95% of last week's price. He intends to develop Lionel's standard lines of trains and toys, but also to expand gradually into grownup electronics (Lionel proposed a merger with Anton-Imco Electronics Corp. last June). He does not plan to go after Government contracts. Says he: "Development of a large military line is not our prime objective. I don't plan to create a corporate image that depends on the vagaries of the defense business...
...Brazil's industrial boom. Quadros kicks off his shoes on the stump, spills ashes on his shirt and works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak of eccentricity that led him to pull out of the race one week and jump back in almost immediately (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Betting odds last week: about even...