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Before Genghis, the Mongols had fought helter-skelter; he taught them the art of maneuver, of charging and wheeling in units. Like Napoleon, he promoted officers to top rank on their merits, regardless of family lineage. Instead of enslaving captives, as was Asiatic custom, he absorbed them into his fighting ranks. And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private...
...Hardy), brassy Georgia (Joyce Holden) and "ugly" Vera (Jacqueline Greene). Spurred on by jealousy of the other two girls, Vera tries to frame them for a murder committed by her boy friend (Don Gordon). At the fadeout, the real killer has been electrocuted on high-voltage wires after a helter-skelter chase along the waterfront, and things are looking rosier for Hannah, Georgia and their boy friends...
...most raucous inauguration of all was that of Andrew Jackson, attended by hordes of enthusiastic supporters from the West. After the inauguration, in the words of a contemporary writer, "a motley concourse of people, riding, running helter-skelter," followed Jackson to the White House, where "it was understood that refreshments were to be served." The mob stormed the gates and doors, smashed china and glassware, trampled on delicate satin chairs with muddy boots...
Their approach to the five most impor tant economic problems shapes up as follows : DEFENSE. The Government's plan to ex pand the economy enough to superimpose war production on top of normal civilian production was sound, but In the helter-skelter expansion, contracts often went to inefficient or high-cost producers. Defense Secretary Wilson plans to shake out costly, inefficient production; he also hopes to step up the supply of arms without stepping up arms-spending. With the help of Eisenhower's own knowledge of military ways, Wilson expects to trim the fat out of procurement...
...helter-skelter chases-e.g., from an off-limits Japanese bathhouse to an airport-are conducted by practically every means of locomotion from foot to Army truck. Also involved are a renegade American (Russell Johnson) smuggling explosives into North Korea, a slinky Eurasian (Mari Blanchard), a harassed MP major (Vaughn Taylor) and an apoplectic general (Barry Kelley...