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Before working its anthropology lesson into the action, Broken Arrow views the notorious Apaches through the eyes of the white settlers, building a fearsome picture of their terrorism around an Arizona outpost. A frontiersman (James Stewart), tired of the fighting, gets the crazy notion that Cochise may listen to reason. Ignoring the scorn and warnings of the other settlers, he schools himself in the Apache language and lore, sends up introductory smoke signals and rides off alone into the dreaded Indian territory. Director Delmer (Destination Tokyo) Daves puts a fine edge of suspense on Stewart's long ride...
...between 1940 and 1950, Oregon from 1,000,000 to 1,600,000. For the first time, the Northwest, risen from the raw wilderness in little more than a century, seemed to be within range of becoming an industrial dominion, rather than a mere outpost of Eastern manufacturing and finance...
...soldier in a remote Alpine outpost during World War I, Sani had started whittling to while the time away. Afterward he found work at a rich artist's villa in the province of Siena. The artist gave Sani plenty of time off for sculpture, taught him to work in stone. Sani insists that today he still carves just "to pass the time and make some money for my wife." But his works, on exhibition in a Milan gallery last week, could stand comparison with the most sophisticated examples of modern Italian sculpture...
...Department of Boyacá the entire work of the Lutherans has been destroyed. During the first week of March their last outpost, which was manned by two nurses, was burned to the ground, and the women had to seek safety outside the state...
...senate, abruptly announced that he was going to vote for Dewey's bill after all. The state needed rent control, and the G.O.P. bill was the only one with a chance of passage, he explained. Ex-Sergeant Dalessandro had won the Congressional Medal of Honor when, his outpost surrounded by Germans, he ordered his company's mortar battery: "O.K., let me have it-right on this position." Last week he was getting it again from outraged Democrats. But Tom Dewey had his rent-control bill...