Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South of St. Louis (Warner) actually takes place just north of the Rio Grande. A Technicolored western, masquerading in fits & starts as a chunk of Civil War history, it has a doubleheader love story and a hydra-headed plot...
...Ford's old Lincoln Continental. A styling touch: the instrument-panel clock is in the center of a concentric-ringed radio speaker. Pontiac has dropped its Torpedo line in favor of the Chieftain. Both it and the Streamliner come as 90-h.p. sixes or 103-h.p. eights. Optional Hydra-Matic transmission ($185 extra) has proved so popular it will be built into 75% of all Pontiacs...
...handed Joe Curran, skipper of the C.I.O.'s big National Maritime Union, had won almost every tussle in his long struggle against Communist control. But it was like fighting a hydra: Joe had to wrestle the Communists and fellow travelers one by one, and every time he pinned one down, another bobbed up. Another trouble was that the Commies were so strongly entrenched that they usually got themselves re-elected to the key union jobs...
...Dark Ship" tells the story of this union from the inside. For all their significance in the American scene, the details of what a union is and how it operates are not well known. The confusion in Congress is proof enough of that. Even the hydra-headed collosi we know as corporations are more familiar, and often more respected. After a brilliant reporting job on a crew and its union activity at sea, Boyer describes the union as a working democracy, as part of the lives of its members, and not as simply a far-away bureaucracy which has lost...
George's coat of arms bears the picture of two Herculeses, both with clubs; but so far he hasn't harmed a Hydra. A product of German governesses, Potsdam Military Academy and the British Court, he sincerely tries to do the "right thing," once remarked sadly: "There are no gentlemen in Greece with whom I could make friends." During his years in exile he apparently felt quite at home in the limbo of throneless royalty, where frayed memories of grandeur are brushed and brushed again like aging cutaways. He dresses well-perhaps a little too well...