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...Ruse in the Night. In Seattle, when a ringing telephone roused Darwin Barker, and a shadowy figure at the foot of his bed said, "Go answer the phone," Darwin hurried off obediently to see who was calling, went back to his bedroom to discover that his trousers, his wallet and the intruder were gone...
...about the Soviet scientific setup as a whole. The centralized administration has advantages, but also produces an unhealthy sort of gamesmanship among scientists. To make sure that they fulfill the "projects for the coming year" that they must submit to the academy, some institute directors have resorted to the ruse of submitting as their "plan" what has already been accomplished the previous year...
...bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations, two newspapers and four radio stations agreed to go along, arid next day all of them announced: "Springfield's police will begin an inch-by-inch search of the murder scene at 2 p.m. tomorrow, looking for the murder weapon...
...movie ruthlessly sends its heroine into action for both sides; yet she proves to be neither turncoat nor indecisive fool nor coward. Dr. Helga Reinbeck (played with passionate intensity by Europe's fast-rising Maria Schell) is serving as head nurse in a German field hospital. By a ruse, a band of partisans whose own doctor is severely wounded succeeds in kidnaping her. After the partisans' doctor dies in her care, they offer her a grim choice: help us or follow him. The decision tears Helga in two, not because she fears execution, but because she must measure...
Earp, who used a ruse and one burst of buckshot to disarm all 30 ruffians, symbolizes not only the gunfighting marshals who tamed the wild frontier but a pack of horse operas that thunder in growing numbers down the channels of TV. The three networks like this season's 16 Western series so well that they have already scheduled twelve more for next fall-the biggest visible trend for the new season-and independents are hopefully breaking in 50 other contenders. Among the forthcoming shows: CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel, ABC's The Texan, The Californians...