Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Panmunjon to chat with U.N. correspondents. Communist Burchett, whom many U.S. newsmen remembered as a competent reporter for Australian Associated Press during the Pacific war, had previously acted as a news "leak" for the Communists. This time, he carefully let slip the fact that the Chinese were still holding an unspecified number of U.S. airmen who had allegedly been shot down over Chinese territory beyond the Yalu. Since Communist China did not officially take part in the Korean war, explained Burchett suavely, the Chinese did not regard these men as prisoners of war and would continue to hold them...
...Shah's court and the government could not agree on whether to hold the court-martial in public and run the chance that Mossadegh might steal the stage, nor had they settled on the punishment to be exacted. Theoretically, he could be condemned to death as a traitor. But in the streets, Mossadegh still commanded great popularity, and the Communist-led Tudeh (in spite of vigorous government efforts to defang it by throwing its leaders into jail) was busy last week cooking up sentiment for a pro-Mossadegh uprising. Those who feared that Mossadegh's wizardry might live...
...learn what it needs. But some changes would be obvious to American newspaper operators, front-page ads, for example, and column widths. Maybe there's good reason in Scotland for front-page ads; we'll have to see. But we won't be fighting just to hold our ground." To get a better view, Publisher Thomson, who this year was an unsuccessful Tory candidate for the Canadian Parliament, plans to move to Scotland, make his permanent home in Edinburgh. Says he: "Up to now, I've just been an accumulator of papers. I've never...
...this business," says Tiomkin, "they begin to follow with these ideas. First Dore Schary called on account of High Noon and said. 'Dimitri, I need song from could be good infantry march.' " Tiomkin wrote Take the High Ground and Hold It for MGM's Take the High Ground. Then he composed the theme for Return to Paradise...
...Potts Goes to Moscow (Associated British Pathe; Stratford) gets hold of a genuinely comic idea but never quite brings it off. Potts (played by British Actor George Cole, who starred as the kiteflying husband in Somerset Maugham's Quartet) is a sanitation engineer who has been designing the men's rooms at a British atomic-research center. Bound for a French vacation, he innocently walks off with the wrong briefcase, containing top-secret plans of a new Abomb. With England in an uproar and security officers searching everywhere for him, Potts is waylaid by Russian agents, plied with...