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...criminal-hero marked for destruction is a tight-lipped swaggering cock of the prison walk named Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker). Even Chief Warder Barrows (Patrick Magee) caters to Bannion. Indeed, Losey's knowing development of the prison's internal and external linkup of influence peddling helps to strengthen his portrait of the criminal's hermetically sealed environment...
...questioned the Government's ability to make its planned tax reforms effective while great increases are occurring in Government spending. Said he: "I would urge upon you a more effective control of expenditures and a determined and vigorous effort to balance the budget. Such measures will strengthen confidence everywhere in the future of the dollar...
Then the House, by an even wider margin (including Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck and his lieutenants), passed the bill designed to strengthen the U.S. for the economic challenges of the years to come...
Looking beyond the Atlantic, the committee raised another thought: If collective action can make Europe stronger, why not partnership with the U.S. to strengthen the West to meet its cold war challenges? Concluded the declaration: "This conflict between East and West cannot be solved without a change by both sides in their conception of the future. While the West gives the impression that it can be divided, the U.S.S.R. will not be disposed to come to agreements in the belief that it can always upset the world balance of power. But when America and Europe have made it clear...
...woods Stradivarius used; she gets spruce and curly maple from the mountains of Czech been seasoning since World War I, and Lombardy poplar from the crates used to ship Chianti bottles from Italy. Toughest wood of all to find is the seasoned willow that Stradivarius used for blocks to strengthen the corners and ends of his violins; Mrs. Hutchins now gets it from polo balls and broken cricket bats, sent to her by friends in England...