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...dismissed the case last week: "It's unfortunate that a member of the teaching profession is subjected to this prosecution. This young lady should have some satisfaction in knowing her position in this matter has been approved in the community." Nonetheless. Roscoe's parents decided to slap Teacher Graner with a $2,500 suit to recover damages for Roscoe's bruised bottom...
...mismanagement of funds last year that forced procurement cutbacks and threatened to wreck the nation's airframe industry. It was a civilian decision that left the Strategic Air Command with a majority of its force grounded for lack of gasoline last summer. It was a civilian decision to slap overtime restrictions on ballistic missile programs. And it was civilian indecision that left both the Army and the Air Force spending hundreds of millions for rival intermediate-range missiles...
...jealousy is a strictly observed rule, she has inspired a surprising amount of viciously unflattering comment. A well-known French actor last week gritted: "I have never in my life hated a woman so much." A German director said: "I never think of that kleine Biest without wanting to slap her face." To the cast and crew of Une Vie, the French picture she has just finished shooting, she was openly known as "The Monster." A French director called her "one of the worst experiences of my life. In that sweet smile I see nothing but bared fangs. Inside...
...scene with the cunning of a crow, and when she was charged with the larceny, she only blinked her big round eyes and vowed that it was only "natural exuberance." One day an actor decided to get even. At a point in the script where he was supposed to slap her lightly, "he slapped me so hard it almost knocked me down." But it was no use. "I cried real tears of pain and looked so genuinely hurt and startled that the audience stood and cheered." Says Director Josef von Baky: "It was all there at 17. The tremendous intensity...
...fulsome quota of barracks-room and smoking-car bawdry and a fairly steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...