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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists still want to discuss a ceasefire; 2) the Communists that the U.N. does not want an armistice badly enough to stand for any pushing around. This week, instead of ordering resumption of the Kaesong talks, Ridgway summoned his negotiators to Tokyo. Possible reason: to discuss a change of site for the truce conference...
Buffalo Hunt. The site of Matador's main ranch in the Panhandle between Fort Worth and Amarillo was a buffalo hunters' camp when Henry ("Paint") Campbell, an old trail driver, bought the land in 1878. Within four years, he expanded the ranch to 1,500,000 acres and 40,000 head of cattle, sold out to a Scottish syndicate for $1,250,000. As Matador's manager, the new owners later chose Murdo Mackenzie, a strapping (6 ft. I in.) Scotsman who became a legendary figure in the West. Old Murdo never carried...
Emir Abdullah, meanwhile, worked hard to transform Jordan, an ungainly, rocky patch of land, into a kingdom. For two years he lived in a tent. On the tent site at Amman Abdullah later built his palace. He ruled as an absolute monarch, but the poorest Bedouin could come to plead with him at any time. He once spent a whole day personally tracking down a rascal who had made a poor woman pregnant...
...Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing names and numbers...
...French Morocco, Walter saw something that changed his whole life: traces of lead ore, which he recognized because he had seen the same ore around a big mine near Joplin, Mo., U.S.A. Against the advice of experts, Walter decided to start the Zellidja mine at the site. Within a few years he was getting rich...