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...Year Plan-which was actually started in 1951 -will be "approved" by the Congress. The 10,000-word draft seems to show that Stalin wants the Russian production machine to churn on pretty much as before. The plan calls for an overall production increase of 70%. As before, the lion's share of that is to be heavy industrial production. Even if the Five-Year Plan reaches its targets (actually, the percentages given by Russian statisticians have only a remote relation to reality), Russian production will still be far behind the U.S.-approximately where the U.S. was about...
Under federal law, the Bureau of Reclamation must distribute Government power by a system of priorities, with publicly owned plants and cooperatives, like REA, the favored customers. Thus, South Dakota fears that Nebraska, a 100% public power state, will get the lion's share of Fort Randall's power. Nebraska, in turn, fears it may lose many of its best municipal customers who might buy direct from Randall...
Fearless Pagan (MGM) is a circus lion that tangles with the U.S. Army. When Pagan's owner (Carleton Carpenter) is inducted, he cannot bear to part with his playful pet, and secretly puts him up in a cage on the Army post. This leads to complications involving a hard-boiled sergeant (Keenan Wynn), an apoplectic colonel (Wilton Graff) and a visiting movie star (Janet Leigh). All ends happily, with Janet and Carleton finding love, and Fagan finding a home in Hollywood. The fadeout shows Fagan, majestically poised on a diving board, leaping into a movietown swimming pool...
...original story, co-authored by Sidney Franklin Jr. and TIME Writer Eldon Griffiths, is based on Griffiths' 1951 LIFE report about the real-life adventures of Floyd C. Humeston, who did a circus wrestling act with Fagan, had brought the lion up from a cub and slept in the same bed with him. When Humeston was drafted, Fagan was adopted by the Monterey...
County Humane Society near Fort Ord, Calif., where Humeston was stationed. During the making of the movie, Private Humeston was given leave to accompany Pagan to Hollywood. As scripted by Charles Lederer, directed by Stanley Donen and pleasantly performed, Fearless Pagan is a merry little romp, with the lion's share of the acting honors going to Fagan...