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Robert Mitchum, the preacher, knows that somewhere around the small Ohio River valley house of Widow Shelley Winters he will find a $10,000 cache. Numskull Shelley, who does not believe the money is there, falls for Mitchum's hell fire because she thinks she will find a spark of romance behind it all. But Preacher Mitchum, who thinks sex and painted women are an abomination, really wants to get his switchblade knife on Shelley's two small children, since they are the only ones who know where the loot is hidden...
...generals, the significance might be that the soldiers had to some degree boxed in the No. 1 general, that the revolt had cost Perón some of his power. But if the Cabinet included Perón's chosen cronies-Minister of Education Mendez San Martin, a spark plug of the anti-church campaign; Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, the old Cabinet's boss policeman; and Minister of Technical Affairs Raul Mende, top political hatchetman-then Perón would be announcing to the world that he was firmly and defiantly back in full control...
There was still a Yale game to go, but the varsity had lost its needed spark. The Crimson nevertheless came within two field goals, losing, 12 to 7. The Class of 1930, however, redeemed the season in part. The freshman team defeated the Elis for the first time in seven years, 19 to 7, behind the brilliant quarter-backing and running of Captain William T. Wetmore. His speedy backs, John Hitch and Guy C. Holbrook, Jr., also paced the victory with several good runs...
...power to play East and West off against each other, and might thereby emerge once more as a danger to peace. Finally, by freeing a rearmed Germany from the strict control of the NATO command, the West loses control over the German army which might again, as after Versailles, spark a return to militaristic nationalism...
...South Africa, where Boer Prime Minister Johannes Strydom seems determined to enslave 9,000,000 Negroes for the benefit of 2,500,000 whites. Caught between, both geographically and psychologically, the Belgians are contemptuous of both black and white "extremes." They fear that South Africa's apartheid may spark race disorders that could spread north; that Nkrumah's black nationalism could get out of hand and spread the dread cry southward: "White...