Word: hunters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost-but not quite-true. After a meticulous study of military records and diaries, he convincingly argues that Custer's expedition into the Dakotas was simply a military reconnaissance and fully permissible under the treaty with the Sioux. Custer did find gold but, being a notorious glory hunter, he grossly exaggerated the amount. On his return, he urged that the Indians be compelled to give up the Black Hills for the good of white civilization. The Government tried to pressure the Indians into selling out, but failed; then it opened a military campaign against them. Jackson shows that...
...acting, however, is erratic. Neither Ronald Hunter, as Don Tindall, nor Marilyn Meyers, as Jean Portugal, succeeds in conveying the fear and excitement of the situation. Some members of the cast simply don't look old, enough for their roles...
...open cockpits is Anti-hero George Peppard, cast as Stachel, an upstart fly-boy whose killer instincts devastate both friend and foe before he can claim "the Blue Max," pilot slang for Germany's equivalent of the Medal of Honor.* In the novel by Jack D. Hunter, Stachel was a murderous, alcoholic blackmailer, but a trio of adapters has softened the edges of Peppard's role, following the unwritten Hollywood law that a hero-heel must be boyish, winning, and a terror abed. As a nod to custom, death in the last reel redeems...
...NAKED PREY. A desperate white hunter (Cornel Wilde) flees ten man-killing native hunters, giving fierce momentum to a classic African adventure drama that never stints on beauty, blood or savagery...
Daisy Frances Hilse, 20, a cheerful, brown-eyed brunette, did not systemati cally set out to score top grades when she entered New York City's scholastically stern Hunter College. "I just hap pened to like all my subjects," she says. She liked them enough so that the A's-44 of them in all - just kept piling up. Last week Daisy became the first grad uate in Hunter history to score a perfect 4.0 rating through all four years...