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...atomic bomb . . ." ¶ Japan's 1,139-year-old Buddhist Shingon (True Word) sect became the first in the country to form a labor union with priests as members. Twelve shaven-headed apprentice priests last week joined office clerks in the "Temple of the Paramount Summit Labor Union" and drew up a contract complete with a strike clause. Main purpose: job security and better working conditions...
...Best picture: The Caine Mutiny (Columbia); The Country Girl (Paramount); On the Waterfront (Columbia); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (M-G-M); Three Coins in the Fountain (20th Century...
...final questions we asked our college subscribers to name the one issue they considered of paramount importance to them as responsible citizens. Their answers ranged from civil rights through morality in government, the need for better education. U.S. foreign policy; but most of the replies had one common denominator: the concern over world peace and the control of Communism...
...bathing suit dutifully splashing around a Japanese bathhouse as Navy Pilot Bill Holden's wife in The Bridges at Toko-Ri (a movie that does little for Grace except establish the fact that she has a better figure than normally meets the eye). At about the same time, Paramount's producer-director team of William Perlberg and George Seaton got word that Jennifer Jones, scheduled to play the title role in their next picture, The Country Girl, had become pregnant. They asked M-G-M to lend them Grace. This time M-G-M said no. Grace still...
...does it have to be me?" And the picture gives Michener's answer: People back home "act the way they do because they're there. You . . . go on doing your job because you're here. It's just as simple as that." This, though Paramount may shudder to hear it said, is an existentialist answer, and surely a poor one to die on-though just as surely many a man has had to die on it for want of a better reason in his heart...