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Colonel von Broeck (Robert Douglas) and his operatives ply the flyers (Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor) with hospitality, prod them with bluster and, when advisable, brutality. They get what they want by playing on the Americans' individual strengths and weaknesses: regional pride, naiveté, cockiness, loyalty to each other. The picture's exposition of enemy intelligence tricks and U.S. airmen's gullibility is so carefully rigged that it makes the Germans look clever enough to have won the war hands down. But it is still absorbing stuff...
...ones that a nervous reader may take to watching his peas and cucumbers in quite a new way. In The Terror of the Twins, space is somehow seized as a weapon in the invisible hands of a spirit, and used to gouge the soul out of one man and prod it into another; the characters are dim as ghosts, but the malefic air is almost as palpable as a knife in the ribs...
...General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. Eisenhower's appointment was long overdue. A meeting of the twelve North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers was scheduled for Brussels about Dec. 20, to seek agreement on German arming. This would give Secretary of State Dean Acheson a chance-if he wanted one-to prod the European governments into speed. So far, the Europeans who had been moaning that the U.S. was neglecting Europe for Asia seemed strangely inactive about their own defense in the little time that might be left to them...
Turning to set manufacturers, FCC suggested that they get right to work turning out sets that, at least, could pick up CBS color telecasts in black & white. As a prod for the reluctant manufacturers, who are having trouble making enough sets for the current market, FCC hinted that if the manufacturers' response is lukewarm it might make a final decision in favor of CBS next month...
...Ready. If all this activity and money gave a new prod to inflation, it also put the U.S. productive machine in good shape for any further war conversion that might come. The war in Korea had found key U.S. industries roaring at capacity; rising employment had restored the bulk of U.S. workers to their jobs. As a result, said Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin last week, the U.S. is far better prepared for war production than when World War II found the nation with 8,000,000 unemployed, many of them untrained or grown rusty at their skills...