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...John Daniel commanded a destroyer squadron in the Pacific, won the Navy Cross. He came from the first session this week reporting that the Communists were "very objective"-meaning businesslike, and not disposed to stall. At the second session, the U.N. briskly accepted the Red offer to exchange disabled POW's but reiterated its long-standing condition: that none be repatriated against his will...
...ends with a more personalized duel between the hero and four menacing savages. Between the two extremes of the movie Power spends the rest of his time looking sternly at the Indians, refusing to lot them bluff him, and smoking several sacks of Bull Durham in a succession of pow-wows...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...years, Texaco, Ohio Oil and Bay Petroleum have all put up new office buildings in Denver. Big new reserves have been turned up in Wyoming's Pow der River and Big Horn basins. Promising finds are being developed in the Ute country of adjoining Utah, where the hunt for oil had once been abandoned. But Salt Lake's determined Wildcatter J. L. (Mike) Dougan kept on trying, despite a heartbreaking series of dry holes. Finally, after two years, he brought in Utah's first commercial well. But that wasn't the end of his heartbreak...
...plot revolves around three members of an American intelligence team out to obtain information on German troop movements behind the Rhine. Leader of the team is an American captain. He has no political convictions. He spies because he's ordered to. Tiger, the second agent, is a German POW who has switched sides for better pay. But the central figure is "Happy," a sad-eyed, 19 year old medic, played by Austrian Oskar Werner. He becomes a traitor because he believes in "a life where people are free...