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...public school teacher occupies a leading position in the community, and should be held to a high degree of moral obligation. Yet the paramount consideration at this time, in particular, should probably be the necessity to preserve individual rights. "Because of the mood of our time and the totalitarian menace, we should emphasize opposition to that mood--the rights of the individual...
...Strategic Air Command (Paramount...
...Horizons (Paramount). The Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1804 is one of the most remarkable in the history of exploration. Its two leaders took a party of some several dozen men, a woman and a child through thousands of miles of virgin wilderness inhabited by hostile tribes. At the end of three years of hazardous journeying there had been only one death in the party-from a ruptured appendix-and but one scuffle with the Indians (two redmen were killed in an attempt at horse stealing...
...Cover (Paramount) is Jimmy Cagney's 50th. movie, and he proves his durability in the very first reel by walking into a point-blank ambush and emerging with nothing more than a scraped forehead. Since the ambush was a mistake, the chastened townsfolk make Cagney their new sheriff, and he promotes his sidekick (John Derek), who was crippled by the posse, to be deputy. But Derek is the kind of fellow who nurses a grudge-first he helps Badman Ernest Borgnine to escape, then he betrays Cagney, shoots him in the back and leaves him to drown...
...cold war, the ideal of absolute liberty must inevitably yield to paramount considerations of national security in a number of sensitive areas of American life. A sense of proper balance between the claims of liberty and the demands of security is especially important in the government's relations with the press and other media of communication. For the public's natural desire for information presents an obvious challenge to government officials with their natural fear that vital national secrets may be delivered unknowingly into the hands of a potential enemy...