Word: rescuers
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When she met the new man, he appeared as a rescuer. Slow-spoken, with "a crooked, diffident smile" and an endless supply of incredible stories, he snapped her out of her navel-staring apathy. A brilliant architect, he claimed to be trapped by an indifferent wife, a hostile mother and a satanic father-a millionaire who made his own laws and found pleasure in destroying whatever his son created. Unlikely as these stories seemed, each one that the woman investigated invariably checked out. All of her dammed up passion and maternity were placed at the man's service...
There the rescuer discovered that four other priests and three nuns in the area were menaced by soldiers, evacuated them in two more plane trips...
...satisfied with the melodrama that falls out of the over turned cliché, and he switches tracks again. For those still willing to string along, there is a fist fight somewhat less solemn than a Laurel and Hardy pie throwing, then a lynching in which no last-minute rescuer shows up. Director Ford's effort might be compared to the pastime of a successful gunfighter who, between important assassinations, lies on his back in a hotel room, drinks dark ale, and obliterates with his six-gun all the flies on the ceiling. The onlooker admires the skill and deplores...
Westerner (NBC) doffs its Stetson to Freud as Brian Keith, borrowing John Wayne's hunch and squint, brawls his way through some crisply directed traumas. Last week Keith rescued a girl from a sadist, only to have her refuse to go along with the rescuer because she liked being slapped around after...
Just as it was about to go down for the third time, ailing, debt-ridden Capital Airlines last week found a healthy and willing rescuer. After five weeks of carefully examining Capital's plight-and sizing up its own chances of emerging unhurt-United Air Lines, the second largest U.S. airline (after American), offered to take over Capital's fleet, facilities, routes and debts in a "merger" that amounted to outright acquisition. The rescue ends Capital's financial troubles, but it also ends Capital, the first major U.S. airline to succumb to the crushing new pressures...