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Colonel von Broeck (Robert Douglas) and his operatives ply the flyers (Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor) with hospitality, prod them with bluster and, when advisable, brutality. They get what they want by playing on the Americans' individual strengths and weaknesses: regional pride, naiveté, cockiness, loyalty to each other. The picture's exposition of enemy intelligence tricks and U.S. airmen's gullibility is so carefully rigged that it makes the Germans look clever enough to have won the war hands down. But it is still absorbing stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...Peroón government recalled three of its diplomatic representatives from the U.S. last week. They were Heavyweight Boxer César Brión, Lightweight Boxer José Gatica and Gatica's manager, Nicolás Preziosa­all auxiliary consular officers of the 6th grade, attached to the New York consulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Failure of a Mission | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Like New Yorkers, habaneros worry about their water supply. Long a perplexing problem because of Havana's never-ceasing growth and the difficulties of piping it into town, the shortage of water led Mayor Fernández Supervielle to suicide three years ago. His successor Nicolás Castellanos, former president of the city council, refused to despair. Energetically he built up the city's reservoirs. Last week a grateful citizenry elected Castellanos mayor in his own right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Bathtub Election | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...Forrest L. Carter '51, Raymond W. Frankmann, Jr. '50, John H. Gay '50, Jay J. Levine '50, Christopher Martin '52, Byron B. Morton, Jr. '52, Winfred Overholser, Jr. '51, Raymond K. Pierce '51, John W. Smith '52, Eric T. Sollce '53, Joseph S. Vera '50, and Robert J. Nicol '52, Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Winter Sports Awards | 3/29/1950 | See Source »

Last week, Justice François Caron, a Catholic, handed down his decision: $400 damages and the costs of litigation for Jacob Nicol. The court held that the marriage was legal beyond doubt, that the girl, being 23 years old, had every right to enter into a marriage contract. A letter from the Abbe to Lucile was introduced in evidence. It said, in part, "You must remain free . . . the marriage at Newport means nothing . . . Nothing obliges you to marry him . . . May le bon Dieu help you in your decision." In the court's opinion, this "constituted not advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Village Juliet | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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