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...McCarthy's reaction to the report was McCarthy-like: It was "a new low in dishonesty and smear." He had labels for the subcommittee members: the Democrats, Missouri's Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr. and Arizona's Carl Hayden, were "lackeys" of Harry Truman; the Republican, New Jersey's Robert C. Hendrickson, was a "living miracle . . . without brains or guts...
...when Congress reconvened, and he dared them to try it. He was sworn in without a sound of protest; his wiser foes were sure that a challenge would have been voted down by the Senate. As he walked back to his seat, Joe seemed relaxed. When he passed Senator Hayden, he clapped the "lackey" on the back and smiled a big smile. Hayden made a face...
Oversold Public. A large public, happily mixing fact & fiction, apparently believes that space travel is just around the corner. Two years ago New York's Hayden Planetarium whimsically offered "reservations" to the moon and planets. It got 25,000 requests, many of them deadly serious, from all over the world. Every military guided missile center has to chase "space volunteers" away from its guarded perimeter...
Hadley was a real person, a southern veteran of the Civil War who went to prison in 1867 for aiding guerilla raiders to escape capture. Hadley, played by Sterling Hayden, served time in Hellgate Military Prison near Copper City, New Mexico. The Hellgate of the movies, called America's Devil's Island, includes a subterranean series of barred caves, a tender hearted commandant, a sadistic sergeant, and enough tortures to send chills along the spine of Charles Addams...
...Hayden is very good as the martyred Hadley. He underplays a part that would tempt a lesser actor to pour on the bathos with one eye on the camera and the other on the Academy Award. Ward Bond is in the unlikely role of a soft-spoken but venomous prison commandant. Bond is usually loud-spoken, and someboy's best cavalry sargent. But he does not become rank conscious, and his promotion suits...