Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long border separating East & West in Germany, Communist Volkspolizei were busy clearing out an "isolation belt" three miles wide. Farmers and their families were ordered from their homes and moved eastward, bag & baggage. In the Harz Mountain village of Hötensleben, some 2,000 inhabitants were ordered to pack up and get out within four hours. A farmer near Hünfeld, ordered to cut down his orchard, burn his house and move east, loaded his wife & children on a farm wagon, tied his cows on behind and fled to the West. The police had orders to shoot on sight...
...revives that familiar old figure of fresh-air fiction, the Canadian Mountie (Wendell Corey) who is out to get his man. In this version the quarry is a killer (Stewart Granger) who, as it turns out, has done his shooting in self-defense. On the way back, a wolf pack takes a few bites out of Corey, and Granger ends up by bringing in the Mountie. Also present: a beautiful Indian girl (Cyd Charisse) who is fond of Granger. There are vivid color shots of the snowy north country and several lusty action scenes, but The Wild North is mostly...
...half an hour the crowd craned and squinted for a glimpse of the racing hounds crossing distant rises. Once, the whole pack was in view, 2,000 feet up on the fells. Meanwhile, though the H.T.A. tries to prohibit betting after the first 15 minutes of trailing, the bookies continued intoning odds and grabbing money. The H.T.A.'s concern is understandable. In the past, nobblers (English version of U.S. fixers) have been known to ambush a favorite, or give a longshot an autoborne boost along the trail. Other nobblers, working hand in glove with bookies, have been jailed...
...latest steps in television: a portable "walkie-lookie" camera, transmitter and receiver, which Sarnoff believes will be ready for use at this summer's political conventions. Using pencil-size tubes and miniature components, the 53-lb. walkie-lookie carries its own battery in a pack strapped to the operator's back, can relay images to re-transmitters as far distant as one mile...
...badly-depleted rugger squad goes to Montreal this weekend for a return match tomorrow afternoon with the West mount Rugby Club. George Sella, "Red" V. ylie, and 230 pound Jeff Power will all be unable to play, and the team's back-line and forward pack will be drastically weakened...