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...nerve and gets it back again, Producer Rossen upsets the book's delicate balance between the tawdriness and nobility of bullfighting. He succeeds best, if at undue length, in picturing the bull ring much as he showed the prize ring in Body and Soul-as a commercialized racket that feeds its parasites, thrills its fickle crowds and lacerates its heroes in body and spirit. Despite some lip service in dialogue and commentary, he fails to do justice to bullfighting as an art, a code of honor, a yardstick and symbol of courage...
...right -two kinds of it, as the State Department told the story. First, its investigator discovered that four of the consulate's employees were homosexuals. He learned next that one of them, a chubby young (25) vice consul named John Wayne Clark Williams, was also running an illegal racket on the side-accepting bribes from Chinese seeking visas to enter the U.S. Williams, a college graduate (North Carolina) who served in the Army for three years during World War II, reportedly confessed that in his 30 months as visa clerk for the Hong Kong consulate, he had collected about...
...also likes spirit and drive--a man has to really want to run to play tennis for him. Both Bramhall and Murphy are strictly Barnaby products--they only learned how to hold a racket the summer before they came to Harvard...
...actual Turks on shore made a great racket sawing wood, banging with hammers and clunking empty oil drums together. In their enthusiasm, several Turks fell into the river. Although they failed to draw enemy fire from the opposite bank, the Turks, who take soldiering seriously, refused to admit that the byplay had been sport. Said their commander, Captain Nihw Evren: "The men understood that what they did was as important as the actual crossing. They were as agitated as if it had been...
Bosch tidied up corruption in the customs service. Finding hundreds of businesses operating without licenses, he made them pay the official fees. Throwing out a racket whereby contractors were never paid till they had kicked back 30%, he squared accounts, began paying...