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...seriously short of funds. On election day. 25 U.S. officers were sprinkled around polling areas by Major General Robert M. Cannon to ''observe" units of the Filipino army on election day. and a platoon of U.S. foreign correspondents, dispersed through the islands, helped protect Filipinos against monkey business at the polls...
...them: ¶ Hondo (Warner Bros.) is a Shane-type hero played by John Wayne. Says Producer Robert Fellows: "There is a reminder of Shane in this picture, but it is . . . just a coincidence. However, we purposely did alter the horse-opera formula a little. It is dangerous to monkey with westerns . . . Every time someone has taken too great liberties . . . they have fallen flat on their face." ¶ The Command (Warner Bros.) features Guy Madison as a U.S. Army medical officer who takes command of a cavalry regiment in an emergency. Says Producer David Weisbart: "It's a kind...
...hesitate to discourage them with the full force of arms, even to the extent of bombing their villages. During the long years of British rule, India's peace-loving nationalists loudly decried such "British atrocities" and urged instead a campaign of loving kindness to win over the monkey-loving headhunters...
...militantly anti-Communist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which represents 97 unions in 73 countries, tossed a monkey wrench toward the machinery of Moral Re-Armament, the nondenominational, untheological, polite revival movement that evolved out of Frank Buchman's old Oxford Group. A report prepared by I.C.F.T.U.'s secretariat accused the Moral Re-Armament movement of interfering "with trade-union activities and [making] anti-trade-union efforts, even to the extent of trying to found 'yellow unions.' " M.R.A., it said, was undemocratic: "Buchman does not build up his movement from below . . . but from the ranks...
...golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for its is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows, there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Some times they even slug law abiding citizens...