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...Island Earth." the movie-goer felt reassured to know that the traitorous fellow-traveller scientists which he feared were only working for peace themselves. And even more reassuring, the Metallunians (read Russians) were involved in internecine wars. They would eventually destroy themselves while the mutant slaves (read Chinese) would inherit a completely devastated world. But despite its patriotic value, the movie propagates the old stock themes...
Enough about clothes. Most clothing in Cambridge is too expensive. And it is a sterile thing to buy. Much better to inherit it or find it in the street or get it as a present from somebody who loves you. There are more productive things to buy. For example...
...union's next president will inherit a conflict that even a bargainer of Reuther's skill and prestige would be hard-pressed to resolve peacefully. The three-year contracts in the auto industry expire Sept. 14. Responding to the surge of militancy from union men who feel that their wage gains have been eroded by inflation, Reuther had talked up huge wage and pension demands. He also was building a $120 million war chest that could carry the U.A.W. through a ten-week strike against General Motors, or a longer one against Ford or Chrysler. Auto men, hurt...
...before turning to films. He was usually cast as the heavy, won critical plaudits in The Great Gatsby, Twelve Angry Men, and most notably, Sweet Bird of Youth, which gained him a 1962 Oscar. Broadway audiences remember him best as the glowering Matthew Harrison Brady in 1955's Inherit the Wind, for which he won the Tony Award...
...movie Stage Fright. Some years ago. the late Paul Muni was in New York to do a play. "After all the pictures I'd made, after so many years in the theater-yet when I walked up from Sixth Avenue to Broadway and saw 'Paul Muni in Inherit the Wind,' I got sick to my stomach. I got nervous and unhappy about the whole thing." Says Jimmy Stewart, now starring in the Broadway revival of Harvey: "I've never been able to overcome the fear thing. The anticipation of acting is just stark terror...