Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When nearly a score of American Presidents gather, as they will June 25 and 26 in Panama, who gets the presidential suite at the leading hotel? Must troops at the airport fire a 21-gun salute for each chief executive on the afternoon of arrival-as many as 420 eardrum-blasting booms altogether? Last week Host Panama, having successfully paved the way for what will probably be history's biggest gathering of heads of state, tackled the touchy protocol problems...
Tough writers are seldom tough guys, but Alexander Fadeyev was an exception. His early novels are Russian-style westerns, full of galloping hooves and gun battles against terrible odds, simple taciturn heroes who figure that the only way to give an order is to snap yes or no. Fadeyev himself lived this kind of life as a Soviet guerrilla during the civil war, and he believed that if it was not yes it must be no. Later, when it became his job to ride herd on Soviet literature for Dictator Stalin, tough Fadeyev made many an author bite the Siberian...
...that appeared in Russian war communiqués, as featureless as its invaders. Russians and Germans blur in this cartoon of death. The sense of death-in-life is all the stronger for the author's calculated casualty-report style; the loss of a barrel of a machine gun has the same weight as the death of a crazed corporal who tries to mine a flame-throwing tank, and whose head "burned like a match." In the book's most telling episode, a captain goes mad when he is compelled to execute as a deserter a stunned...
...French farms, burned buildings to the ground, slaughtered 17 Europeans and 23 Moslems. In the east, rebels attacked 40 villages along the mountainous coast, hurling hand grenades and gasoline bombs. At week's end, rebel suicide squads broke into Constantine (pop. 118,000) at noon, fought a running gun battle with French troops through the streets, and bombed a Jewish cafe in the city's center...
...film slips smoothly into a Hitchcock chase sequence as Jimmy and Doris charge off to London to track down the kidnapers: there is a melee in a taxidermist's shop, an encounter with the villains in a Non conformist chapel, a hand-to-hand struggle with the gun-wielding assassin in a velvet-curtained box at Albert Hall, a final showdown in the gilt-and-mirror splendor of a foreign embassy. Hitchcock alternates his chills with comedy, as when Jimmy is bitten by a stuffed tiger, and gets deft performances from both Stewart and Doris Day. But the pace...