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Thus, with not a word spoken, Newman's game, rank and destination are established beyond doubt. He is hellbent for Bogart country, that raw, rich Big Sleep milieu; and this Warner Brothers revival of a grand old tradition gets him there in style. Based on Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target, and accelerated at a slick '60s pace by Director Jack Smight, Harper gives Newman his feistiest role since...
Even the ragtag New York Rangers refused to lie down. After handing the Hawks a third straight shutout in New York, they skated into Chicago hellbent on making it four. The 20,000 home-town fans who had sardinepacked themselves into the 17,100-capacity Chicago Stadium sat in mute agony as the Hawks fell behind 2-0. Hull could do nothing. Then in the third period, Chicago warmed the ice. And minutes later, with the score 2-1, the Rangers were penalized a man. It looked like Hull's chance. Up went an expectant, hopeful cheer...
...certainly set a new tone in New York City. He started off facing a double crisis that threatened to collapse the school system on opening day in September: civil righters were set to boycott schools in protest against de facto segregation, and the militant teachers' union was hellbent for a massive strike. Won over by Gross's tough minded sincerity, Negroes put off their boycott; softened by his ability to com promise, the teachers accepted a face-saving settlement...
...Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent towards a peaceful showdown, and nobody blinks...
...glamor in the form of white tie, tails, ballroom scenes and pretty dolls will show up on a Garry Moore show or a Perry Como episode, but, by and large, whether it's new public affairs or the run-of-the-mill Hollywood vidfilm product that's hellbent for realism, TV today, for the man in work clothes and business suit, is simply an extension of what he sees, hears and participates in all day long...