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Special Justice. It will not occur if John McClellan can prevent it. To the job of preventing it he brings much more than his scowl and his voice; they are merely the sight and the sound of the controlled strength that makes McClellan one of the most respected members of the U.S. Senate and its top investigator. Into the arena of congressional investigation, where many a congressional head has been turned by headlines and TV time, McClellan brings a special kind of justice. It is the personal code of a man who has had to learn the hard...
...turned to toil. At one collective farm 33 generals and 127 field-grade officers suddenly appeared and pitched in to help flabbergasted peasants with the weeding and manure-hauling. In the capital itself Minister of Marine Products Hsu Teh-heng, 63, spent a day as a fish porter-a sight which, according to Radio Peking, "greatly inspired" the populace...
...Majestic Sight. Born in Manhattan, Sizer graduated from Harvard in 1916, went to Yale in 1927 after serving as curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art and lecturing at Western Reserve. An imposing man with a massive mustache, he soon made his mark in New Haven. His particular hero was the Revolutionary painter John Trumbull, and, like Colonel Trumbull, he seemed to come straight out of the 18th century. In those days, Sizer once said, "things were done in real style." In his own way he tried to keep that style alive. Few sights were more impressive than that...
...signed, the Penn-Texas stockholders sharply questioned Silberstein's tactics in the Morse fight. They cited the protective committee's report that Penn-Texas stock had dropped from $19.62 to $11.25, that cash dividends dropped from $1.30 in 1955 to 35? in 1956, with none in sight...
Miss Bergman proves particularly inept as our fair heroine. The romantic side of the story completely fails to be convincing. Scarcely looking like a simple peasant girl in either attire or manner, most of her role consists of staring into the hero's eyes after love-at-first-sight and screaming after him, "Roberto, Roberto" as he departs courageously into the darkness...