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...wrong direction . . . and had never run into anyone like him." But adolescents who run to the theater expecting to see a hot-rod drama packed with jive-talking juveniles are due for a letdown. Burning Hills is simply one more version of the venerable western about the mean old rancher out gunning for the squatters who are fencing off the open range. The six-shooters bang, the corpses hit the dust, the cowboys gallop hell for leather across the wide screen. In between the bloodlettings, Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood speak pidgin English to each other and sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Thus last week in Colorado these words, spoken by ex-Governor Dan Thornton, wealthy rancher and onetime farmboy, shoved Colorado's senatorial race right off its mile-high mountaintop and down into the barnyard. As sole Republican candidate for the vacated Senate seat of ailing Eugene D. Millikin, who is retiring, the popular Thornton will have to go to the polls against one of two Democratic primary candidates: former Congressman John Carroll or Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Thornton had decided by last week that Brannan was the man to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Colorado's High Pitch | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Gothard), but fate keeps her from the altar. In this, fate has been aided by a series of villains of whom Kurt Bonine is merely the latest. Almost all of them are millionaires, and the effect Helen has on them is generally deadly. She drove Brett Chapman, millionaire ' rancher, to exile in South America. Dwight Swanson, oilman, piloted his plane into a crash and died. Kelcey Spencer, motion-picture tycoon, went off a cliff to his death. But Dick Waring, a madman, was sane only with Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ageless Heroine | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Rancher: Well then, Mr. President, I will sell you a bull-for one peso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Prosperous President | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Rancher: Mr. President, I have no change with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Prosperous President | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

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