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Ford's greatest films are his westerns, a uniquely American art form he helped create, and a genre of which he is undisputed master. These westerns are memory films, filled with the traditions of the past, created from the anecdotes, fables, and songs that sprang from American history. But in addition to drawing on Americana, Ford created it; the characters and situations in his westerns, from The Iron Horse to Stagecoach to Ford Apache to The Searchers to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, have become as much a part of American tradition as those on which Ford originally drew...
With the disclosure that the U.S. National Student Association had been secretly financed by the Central Intelligence Agency for 15 years (TIME, Feb. 24), a Pandora's cashbox of CIA philanthropy sprang open to public view last week...
With a sudden surge, the members of East Germany's Volkskammer (People's Chamber) sprang to their feet. As the country's Communist ruler, spike-bearded Walter Ulbricht, 73, looked on, the 434 Deputies thus signaled their unanimous approval of a new law that aims at making the division of Germany a spiritual as well as a physical reality. Into East Germany's law books last week went a statute giving the 17 million people under Ulbricht's rule a new citizenship in "the first peace-loving, democratic, socialist German state...
...Olivetti & Co. sprang a surprise at last week's annual shareholders' meeting. First, in a country where fiscal secrecy is the rule, there were some proud announcements of sales and earnings. For the Italian mother company, profits rose from $7,000,000 in '65 to nearly $11 million in '66. Worldwide, Olivetti sales last year reached $508 million, up $62 million over '65. (Observers estimate that Olivetti's global profits were $16 million last year, up about 40%.) Next came the surprise: a change of top-level management in the wake of success...
Williams first made major news in 1953 by winning the first successful libel suit against Columnist Drew Pearson ($50,000 for former Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell). As his reputation grew, he constantly upbraided the Government for stooping to seamy means in order to conquer seamy defendants. He sprang Costello by showing that the U.S. prosecutor had secretly scanned the tax returns of 150 venire-men to get a "goldplated" jury in the gambler's tax trial. In the 1956 perjury trial of ex-OSS Lieutenant Aldo Icardi, who told a congressional subcommittee that he had not murdered...