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...jewel of muzzle-loading artillery, falls into the hands of an illiterate guerrilla chieftain (Frank Sinatra) after being abandoned by Spain's routed army regulars. Sharing his ordeal of moving the gun overland, through French-commanded passes and along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand girl, is a dispensable part in a story that Forester correctly...
When contacted last night, a member of the Buildings and Grounds crew refuted the steam tunnel theory. "The steam tunnels are spotless, spick-and-span, all painted white," he said. "I don't see how it's possible for roaches to reside there...
Fingertip Understanding. A far more significant achievement was his success in winning the confidence of U.N. delegates in hundreds of quiet sessions in his spick, pine-paneled office on the 38th floor of the U.N. Building. He absorbed the opinions and aspirations of delegate after delegate with a clear-eyed sympathy that rapidly earned him a reputation for brilliance, discretion and impartiality. Hammarskjold does not pretend to be impartial at heart ("You love some things and you loathe others"), but he does his best to bring to his job the objectivity of a good historian. "The public," says he, "never...
...casual European who puts his glass to his eye is likely to identify the U.S. today as a sort of gigantic liner on a luxury cruise. She sails serenely into the atomic age, with a rich mixture of smoke pouring from her stacks. Her paint and brightwork are spick-and-span. Lights burn brightly from every porthole, and occasional snatches of music float out. Her passengers, sports-dressed and bullion-blessed, spend seemingly endless hours on deck playing shuffleboard...
...artist's own aunt was Elinor ("Fanny" was a nickname) Smith, his mother's sister, who lived with the Bellowses when George was a child. Aunt Fanny, who had no children of her own, helped keep the house spick & span, saw to it that young George was always dressed in starched tidiness. She even taught him to whistle while he was still in his baby carriage. In middle age, Aunt Fanny married and moved to California, but in 1920, when she was over 70, she came on a visit to her nephew's home in Woodstock...