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Hollywood sex fantasies are usually called something like "I Was A Captive Love Slave For The Amazons" and usually star Victor Mature as a social anthropologist, captured in darkest Africa by a lost tribe of lithe, fair-skinned vixens, whose only desire is that he stay and propagate the race. The scholarly but virile anthropologist always has a beautiful fiancee back at the university to whom neither love potion nor dance of the seven virgin starlets can keep him from returning...
Spartacus, hailed by Plutarch as a man "in understanding and gentleness superior to his condition," was the leader of a band of 78 slaves who in the year 73 B.C. escaped from a training school for gladiators at Capua, 130 miles south of Rome. Eluding the Roman garrison, the gladiators stole weapons, pillaged estates, and freed thousands of slaves (who then made up four-fifths of the population of Rome). After two years of revolt, during which he defeated nine armies sent against him by the Roman Senate, Spartacus commanded a force of 90,000, cavalry and foot. Emboldened...
...ages since, Spartacus has been revered as the patron saint of revolutions. In this century the Communists have claimed him, and both Howard Fast (now an ex-Communist) and Arthur Koestler (now an antiCommunist) have written historical novels about the heroic slave. The script of this picture-based on Fast's book and written by longtime Far Leftist Dalton Trumbo, whose name until recently led the Hollywood blacklist-plays Fast and loose with the historical facts...
...Force: "Lack of a sound, experienced military-technical organization has been responsible for the technical side of that service becoming almost a slave of the aircraft and associated industries, subject to endless pressure and propaganda ... As an absolute minimum the Army and Air Force must be recombined into a single service...
...next installment, a few irreverent words of advice: Mr. Nixon, you do not look earnest on camera when Mr. Kennedy is speaking; you look positively malevolent; do something about your face. Mr. Kennedy, this "half-slave, half-free" bit is tired; find a new lead. Mr. Nixon, anyone who knows the President's news conferences would know that he was not being facetious when he said that if he were given a week, he might think of a major idea you had proposed; he was merely having his usual troubles with the English language; of course, that's rather difficult...