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...Hunt is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. It is set in the bleak, blasted terrain of Korea a few months prior to the cease-fire at Panmunjom. Private Endore (John Saxon) is a broody loner. Each night he smudges up his face and like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual...
Bloody Denial. Newsboy, now 52, was a loner who never took on a partner, never played with the big-time syndicate hoods, their molls or their tailors. He never married, lived with his two sisters in a decrepit three-story house in his old neighborhood. He neither drank nor smoked, and attended church regularly...
Like Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave is about a Westerner whom civilization has made an anachronism. The film is a western in spirit and setting but not in theme. Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time...
...announced, will move to Miami not only his wife and six children, but also his former Frontier vice presidents for operations, sales and finance. The new team hopes to increase National's profits by refinancing, and standardizing its hodgepodge of aircraft. Known in the airline industry as a loner, Maytag seems unlikely to reopen the merger negotiations with Continental Airlines, which National broke off in March. Says he: "I think National can stand on its own two feet." As for George Baker, he will remain a director of National, but cheerily confides: "My future plans are to work...
...eight years of generally politicking around Massachusetts Peabody has remained independent working seriously for only one candidate, John F. Kennedy '40, met at Harvard. The President a loner in Massachusetts very lack of success has him on the corruption issue. In campaigns he has won only once--a term on the Governor's Council...