Word: guerillas
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...National Observer is obviously taking dead aim at the "family" market. On its first front page, for instance, the Observer ran a great big rocket picture for Junior, a story about a tough general and guerilla warfare for Dad, a fashion article for Mom and Sis, and a piece on what's happening to city churches for dear old Grandma...
...cliches (witness the sadistic, perverted-looking SS officer), but most are acceptable. Gregory Peck, as usual, is better at looking rugged than anything else, but David Niven turns out an excellent performance as a college professor with a talent for blowing things up. And Anthony Quinn, as a Cretan guerilla, is in consistently top form. His bit in the interrogation scene should win over anyone not already convinced that he is among the finest actors in this country...
With Matthews, however, journalistic participation preceded commitment. As the New York Times correspondent whose interview with Fidel in February, 1957, established the fact that the guerilla leader was still alive, and as the editorial writer who martialed the forces in opposition to Batista, Matthews indeed turned out to be the equivalent of an army division to Castro. Since the Revolution has not developed in Matthews' image; it would be simple to say that The Cuban Story has been written from a posture of disillusion; but it would also be inaccurate...
...There is a guerilla movement against mechanization, and the name of that movement is creativity," claimed Peter Viereck '37, Pulitzer Prize poet, last night. In his speech, given during the second day of the Quincy-Holmes Arts festival, Viereck observed that the movement "depends not on know...
...border, and his second at Muong Sing, 20 mi. to the northwest. He handled as many as 100 outpatients a day, wrote two more books (The Edge of Tomorrow, The Night They Burned the Mountain), and recklessly shrugged off the possibility of ambush as he pushed his Jeep through guerilla-infested jungle on daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley was a "hit-and-run" doctor, he obligingly admitted to the charge. When they complained about his arrogance, Irish Catholic Dooley replied: "I know...