Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower's troubleshooting Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson published a joint statement with Rhee. in which the substance of agreement was hidden under an amiable flow of words. Apparently this was done to save Rhee's face, i.e., to screen the manifest fact that he had been backed down. Excerpts: "Our two governments are in agreement in respect to entering into a mutual defense pact, negotiations for which are under way. We have likewise discussed collaboration along political, economic and defense lines, and our conversations have disclosed a wide area of agreement concerning these matters...
...Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared Beria's arrest? If the tradition of the service holds, it may well have been his successor: clam-faced Colonel General Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov, long a liaison man between the ministry and the Kremlin. At Yalta and Potsdam, Kruglov set up the protection screen which surrounded the Big Three,-was one of the very few who had free access to Stalin's quarters. At the San Francisco Conference, turned out in a blue serge suit and broad-toed shoes, he was Molotov's bodyguard. Although Kruglov's police career dates from...
Married. Jay Gould III, 32, namesake and great-grandson of the fabulous railroad financier; and Lina Romay, 29, dark-eyed songstress of stage (Michael Todd's Peep Show) and screen (The Man Behind the Gun); he for the third time, she for the second; in Los Angeles...
...Force lieutenant colonel stationed in Britain, Joel McCrea demonstrates firmly that after 25 years on the screen he can bellow convincingly such lines as, "Hey! Let's get out of here!" And away he runs across southern England, with the wife (Evelyn Keyes) under one arm, and under the other an atomic spy. The colonel figures that if he buddies up to one spy he might run down a lot of others. Well, cars full of sincere-looking extras-Scotland Yard men, who resent McCrea's interference-roar in pursuit, and platoons of snaky-looking loungers, the agents...
...Charge at Feather River (Warner) is a stereoscopic horse opera that offers a new if not significant development in 3-D movies: at one point, a U.S. cavalry sergeant (Frank Lovejoy) spits right out of the screen at the audience, which happens to be in the line of fire also occupied by a rattlesnake. In addition to this effect, The Charge at Feather River has knives, arrows, tomahawks, spears, bullets, bodies and horses hurtling out from the screen. There is also a story about a gallant little band of cavalrymen who set out, shortly after the Civil War, to rescue...