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...Victor McDaniel, a cafeteria counterman. When McGinnis reached the union's roadblocks, he swung off the road and skittered across a field of rye. Rifles and shotguns roared from the embankment. "The noise was awful," said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also in a thigh, arm and ankle, somehow stumbled 50 yards to the plant and fell unconscious. A striker's bullet tumbled McGinnis into the rye, but he climbed to his feet...
...neon lights, livid-hued customers sip their grisly 'shakes' or study a menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya...
...linger on the obvious that for a while it barely makes the grade as comedy. Not content to have Francis show up his military superiors, Author-Scripter Stern lets the mule go on haranguing them as well. But in its best scenes, the picture kicks up enough fun to numb a tolerant moviegoer to its shortcomings. Actor O'Connor makes an amiable nitwit, and Francis (voice by horse opera's Chill Wills) is a tribute to the patience and technical skill of moviemaking...
...were crises over shoes (wrong ankle straps) and gloves (too shiny) and the necklace (too large). But presently the massed lights went on, all shadows withering in the merciless crossplay. (Many models are less than brilliant conversationalists. Says Lisa, an excellent one: "Sometimes I think all these hot lights numb the brain...
...couldn't talk when he asked me what was wrong. I was numb and sick all over. He finally made me put the babies in their beds. Then he put his hands on my shoulders and shook me lightly until I could talk again. The rest of that scene wasn't very pleasant and I don't suppose either of us will ever forget it. But the important thing is that before the evening was over, we were planning to take the babies to New York to see what could be done for them...