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...drive through the thickly populated Kikuyu reserve, where shaven-headed Kikuyu women stagger under headloads that would shatter the spines of pack mules, and the closely clustered thatched mud huts look like shaggy beehives. Then you come to the edge of the escarpment, and the Rift Valley lies below you like a giant frying pan. Over to the right, the Aberdare range begins to loom, blue and smoky, and that's where the Mau Mau gangs lurk, and strike from. There are no east-west roads across the Aberdares. You have to go round them. And that...
...John, John Alden." Neither is it surprising that all the Pilgrims show a superhuman piety and fearlessness, that they are all cultured and very proper, acting more like their descendants than the hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character on Mayflower is the only non-Pilgrim, the captain (Spencer Tracy), who strides across his poop deck, cursing love and friendship in exaggerated tones, and carrying the whole burden of godlessness, until the others finally...
...supposed to save 37% in the time necessary to put on a show. Everything-from raw materials to finished product-is under one roof: rehearsal halls, four studios, a 35-man carpentry shop, a paint shop, even a plaster shop that makes everything from fake balustrades to bottles that shatter when bounced lightly off an actor's head. CBS can also store, for quick reuse, all its scenery and sets (in Manhattan the company spends about $40,000 a week just trucking sets to & from the studios...
...Republican Senate is elected under Eisenhower, it will be run by Taft, not Lodge. If a Republican Senate is elected under Stevenson, Taft and his mid-western isolationists will effectively shatter any hope of bi-partisanship on foreign affairs. Only if a Democratic Senate is elected will our internationalist policies be continued. Control of the Senate hangs on three seats. For this reason alone, the re-election of Lodge might well be dangerous to the future of our country. If we hope to keep the gains we have made in unifying the free world against Communism, we must return...
...survey has also found cause to shatter several of our most common beliefs about the Irish," Dr. Hooton explained...