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...Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clich...
...Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clich...
...tensions," in the Rapacki disengagement plan, a "thinning out" of Soviet and U.S. troops in Central Europe, or any other ingenious schemes for an overall settlement of the German problem. What Khrushchev is determined to do, beyond all else, is t01) end Berlin's status as an outpost of Western power, and 2) oblige the West to accept, openly or implicitly, the permanence of the East German Communist state. To force the West's hand, Khrushchev denies that the Western powers any longer possess World War II "conquerors' rights" in Germany -which means that he does...
...strife centered about demands of four-fifths of the eastern Mediterranean island's population of Greek origin for complete integration with Greece while Turkey demanded partition of the country for the other fifth of the half-million islanders, who speak Turkish. The island is Great Britain's military outpost in the Mideast...
...story gets off to a brisk start with Cliché No. 1: an Army outpost in the Arctic, in which 104 G.I.s sit stiff with boredom. Until Cliché No. 2, a gorgeous psychologist (Janet Leigh) of the WAC, recommends a policy of vicarious leave-send one man on a perfect furlough and let the others enjoy themselves thinking about it. The scheme naturally produces Cliché No. 3, a shamelessly corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis), who wins the raffle and is shipped off to spend three weeks in Cliché No. 4, Paris, with Cliché No. 5, a South...