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...office attraction for years. His crew is pictured as a pack of irresponsible children who would not last ten minutes in the wilderness without Wayne's paternal guidance: one of them does not follow Wayne's orders, and as a result freezes to death; Wayne has to slap another out of hysteria, cajole a third into courage. The high-strung pilots of the rescue planes include such familiar character actors as Andy Devine and Allyn Joslyn...
...gimmicks or old variations on the Soviet Stakhanovite system: P. Bykov's "rapid-lathe-operators' movement," J. Savitch's "rapid-grinders' movement," P. Duvanov's "movement for speeded-up baking of tiles," the "method of three" for cooperative laying of bricks-one man to slap on mortar, one to pass the brick, one to set the brick. The "work norm" became the laborer's master: if bricks laid or valves ground fell below inexorably increasing quotas set by the government, his wages fell...
...Slap in the Face. Had Hollywood really done any more than recapture the public's attention by slapping it in the face? Had a real technical and artistic revolution been started in the movie world...
Yesterday's direct slap at the NCAA is the first step toward the Ivy League's complete severance of connections with the NCAA. The severance is expected to take place within the next 12 months and is due to the deep dissatisfaction of the Ivy League college heads with "such a powerful organization of men who think along professional lines and arbitrarily bind colleges to any and all agreements," according to a high University official...
...zigzag streets, brandish ing the guns they seized in last year's fighting, shouting "Viva el Presidente !" and "Down with Imperialism!" A big banner draped on the presidential balcony proclaimed: "Economic Independence." A miners' contingent marched past with three dogs labeled "The Tin Barons"- a slap at the three big tin firms nationalized during Paz Estenssoro's first year...