Word: heartbreaking
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...hippos gambol in the shallows and crocodiles gape evilly from mudbanks, Bogart and Hepburn fight each other, the elements and the Germans. They are shot at by natives, drenched by torrential downpours, devoured by mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, felled by malarial fevers. They triumph over heat, hardship and heartbreak only to end as prisoners of the Germans, with the hangman's noose about their necks. But Hollywood knows how a good movie chase must end: in one final, glorious and impossible explosion...
...Defend a Line. Since the truce talks began, the U.N. has spent 30,000 casualties in U.S. troops alone in trying to fight its way through Bloody Ridge, the Punch Bowl, Heartbreak Ridge and the rest. Its goal was a defensible line on which to rest the truce. If the Administration had adopted the new policy in June, it might have saved the subsequent casualties. It could have accepted a truce at the "indefensible" 38th parallel, and defended that with a threat to open up on the China coast...
...item 2 on the agenda-the cease-fire line-which gave rise to some premature optimism. The Reds suddenly proposed a line which almost coincided with the U.N. proposal along most of the front. The Red concession meant that the allies could keep their hard-won mountain terrain (including Heartbreak Ridge) in the center and east. The Communists also agreed to the simile buffer zone along the line suggested...
...hospital after being wounded for the third time. After a smile for the cameras, there was a round of congratulations: to the general for being nominated U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, to William for wearing the new gold leaves of a major, a battlefront promotion after his action on Heartbreak Ridge...
...year-old daughter of Gloria Swanson, announced that she was flying home to tell mother about her plans to marry Turkish-born Movie Producer Robert Amon, 36. Said she: "As a kid I traveled with mother on enough one-night stands. I know what an awful lot of heartbreak and struggle goes into a stage career. If there's a choice, you're crazy not to take a home and a family...