Word: hammerism
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Scream of Fear (Hammer; Columbia). "You must be dead." the stepmother (Ann Todd) murmurs with sinister sympathy as the wan little crippled girl (Susan Strasberg) turns her wheelchair wearily toward bed. Poor child, she hasn't had an easy life: a divorce in the family, a fall from a horse, nine years of physical limitation and nervous debility. Then suddenly her mother's death, and now an anxious new beginning in her father's house. Odd, come to think of it, that her father isn't there to meet her, but then of course business...
...Punta del Este, 65 miles from the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, that Latin American news for years to come was being shaped. With urgency and hope, 440 delegates from 21 American republics met last week in the most difficult task ever faced by an inter-American assembly: to hammer into shape President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. If they succeeded, the conference would launch an immense cooperative pull to lift the face of Latin America. If they failed, chaos or Communists awaited several of the nations...
...dictator will use A-or H-bombs for fear of reprisal, nor "conventional" arms because of our budgeted buildup, it's plain that the next war must be fought with triremes, broadswords, crossbows and assagais. (Would catapults be cheating?) I do hope we have alerted our archery clubs, hammer throwers and those of our allies still expert with spear and blowgun (politicians might qualify on the latter...
...Whoever will not be the hammer will in history be the anvil . . . The sword was always the precursor of the plow, and if one speaks at all of human rights, then war deserves in this single case the highest right . . . Every healthy folk sees in the acquisition of territory nothing sinful but something natural...
Cause of the activity was a special meeting of the economic ministers of the Latin American nations, called by the U.S. to hammer into shape President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, the most vital aid program in the history of the hemisphere. At the start of the conference this week, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, leading the U.S. delegation, will propose a generous, but often stern, program. Even the minimums are staggering. To help raise the per capita income in each country by 2.5% a year, the U.S. intends to pour $1.3 billion a year into Latin America...