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Most of Rain's inaction takes place smack-dab in Columbus, Texas, where Georgette (Lee Remick) toils as a carhop at the Magnolia Drive-in. Her no-good husband Henry (Steve McQueen) is a parolee who heads a string band and hankers to get famous with his songs, like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide...
...first postwar decade, Joseph Stalin's meddling in the Middle East was largely limited to Russia's immediate neighbors, Turkey and Iran-where he had scant success. But the ubiquitous Khrushchev boldly leapfrogged smack into the area, sending legions of comrade plenipotentiaries armed with aid, or ready to aid with arms. Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing Royalist rebels in Yemen, the Soviet presence in the Middle East...
...Inside it the piece of metal to be plated is hooked up as the cathode (negative pole) of an electrical circuit. The plating material forms the anode (positive pole). When a high-voltage direct current is passed through the circuit, positive argon ions fly across the gap and smack the substrate so hard that they blast it clear of gas or oxide...
...Peron's clutch of cronies, they were ordered to clear out of Spain pronto. Four of them did and ran smack into yet another fiasco at New York's Kennedy Airport, where they were promptly bucked back to Madrid because they lacked proper visas. At week's end, they tried a second time, with visas, and made it through to Asuncion, the capital of friendly Paraguay. Diehard Peronistas in neighboring Argentina claimed that it was an advance party and that Peron might still work his way to Asuncion...
This description joined the list of unflattering epithets -among them "chronic liar," "journalistic polecat" and s.o.b.-that have already been hurled at Pearson without puncturing his hide. But the News-Miner's phrase hit him smack in the reputation-or so the columnist claimed in a $176,000 libel suit. In his own defense, Pearson produced almost half a dozen character witnesses, among them the gentleman farmer whose 499 acres are near the Pearson property in Maryland: US Senator Wayne Morse...