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...furor over this scene, though indeed it is the most impressive one in the film, is likely to distract attention from the picture as a whole; and the whole is an ambitious attempt to show what the American heartland was like when 60 million buffaloes roamed the plains. Disney fails-partly because of the smug, fatherly pats of approval he keeps giving the animal kingdom, as though he personally had founded it with Mickey Mouse. Here and there, however, the picture has a patch of beauty briary enough (as the nursery rhyme puts it) to scratch...
...heartland. Reason: "Up to now, the people who live east of the Appalachians believe if you go west of the mountains everyone has horns and a tail." Rhode Island's courtly Senator Theodore Francis Green, who has been in Washington since 1937, announced that he would run for another term, despite his age-86. If he serves another term, Green could break the longevity record set by Virginia's Carter Glass, who died while in office...
...reign of the great sectional leaders of American politics did not pass with Calhoun, Webster and Clay. One of the most powerful in history died just last year: Robert A. Taft. The Republican parties of the twenty-odd states that make up the heartland of America followed him to the point of devotion. Because of this it was he, more than any other man, who stopped the New Deal dead in its tracks after the Second World War and begrudged the nation a bipartisan policy of world leadership...
...Canadian defense officials gave a guarded glimpse last week of a new system of electronic detection stations designed to protect North America's heartland from Soviet air attack. The new line, lying "generally to the north of the settled territory in Canada," would provide earlier warning of intruding aircraft than the Pinetree Chain of interlocking radar stations, already in operation from coast to coast above the Canadian border...
...long ago, "then China's people would have cheap food to eat." Red China and the Soviet Union are now building Sun Yat-sen's railroads, with a notably different purpose. They mean, by 1957, to bring Communist power by rail into Asia's heartland, to forge new steel bands across the world's greatest continent and to consolidate their grand alliance...