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...five years as chief regulator of the 5,011 U.S. national banks, James J. Saxon became one of the Government's most activist bureaucrats and one of the most contentious. He chartered more than 500 new banks, permitted 510 banking mergers, and empowered commercial banks for the first time to get into revenue-bond underwriting, the direct-leasing business and insurance selling. Along the way, he irritated two U.S. Presidents and obstreperously tangled with such Washington Pooh-Bahs as Robert Kennedy, William McChesney Martin, Nicholas Katzenbach, Senator John McClellan and Congressman Wright Patman-as well as leaders...
With that track record, the Comptroller of the Currency finished his term and agreed to take a high position at an as yet unnamed Midwestern bank. Thereupon, President Johnson last week appointed a successor who everybody hopes will be just as effective but somewhat less abrasive than Saxon...
...Notice in the personal column of the London Times It was exactly 900 years ago last week that Harold, last of the Saxon kings, became the most disastrous name in British history. On Oct. 14, 1066, in a green field seven miles northwest of the coastal town of Hastings, his 6,000-man army was cut down by the Norman invaders of William the Conqueror. Harold was slaughtered, and the language, civilization and blood of Englishmen were changed forever. Englishmen have been celebrating the anniversary all year-in the traditional manner of today's Britain...
...than any team of Hollywood scriptwriters ever imagined. In a role that a lesser actor might easily saunter through, Brando handicaps himself with a fiercely concentrated acting style more suitable for great occasions. He seems determined to play not just a man but a whole concept of humanity, and Saxon's brazen theft of the hoss soon looms as a cause equal in significance to the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Human Rights. Though Saxon ropes Brando, drags him through a stream, and presses his forearm onto a scorpion during an Indian wrestling match, Brando survives...
...stuff that fleshes out the bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...