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...general air of incoherence are only minor imperfections in a film as carefully contrived as a matchstick castle. The Searchers is rousingly played by what Hollywood calls the "John Ford Stock Company"-a group made up of Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, a half-dozen bit players, seven stunt men who are repeatedly shot off horses, and many of the same Navajo Indians who have been losing battles in John Ford pictures since 1938. By now, all of them perform with practiced ease: the women know just where to stand on the cabin porch as they peer off anxiously...
...with a vase and breaking a chair over his head. While the salesman, cowering over his vacuum-cleaner attachments, quavers: "You shouldn't do that!" husband and wife batter each other around the room. Jovial M.C. Jack Bailey explains the hoax: the husband and wife are Hollywood stunt players; the smashed furniture consists of harmless "break away" props-and, while the audience howls, the vacuum salesman is congratulated on being a good sport...
...southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal marshes and that throughout history has kept invaders back and the islanders down. Thereafter, by one of the most intensive campaigns ever waged against malaria, U.S. and Italian DDT teams banished the anopheles mosquito that had helped stunt the development of a people long accounted the smallest of Italians. Since 1950 there has not been a single new case of malaria in Sardinia...
...take-off). When rising or hovering in the vertical position, it probably depends for control on outboard thrust outlets taking power from the engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near the ground, nose upward, and then slowly move under an overhead framework, from which it will suspend itself like a bat landing on a roof of a cave...
...Honolulu Advertiser's Bob Krauss is a seasoned journalistic stunt man and the best-read columnist in Hawaii. Once, to test the legendary hospitality of Hawaiians, he walked for a week around the island of Oahu carrying no money, food or blankets, yet was well fed and housed. Krauss's latest stunt grew out of a column in the Advertiser (circ. 68,548) in which he twitted housewives who complain about their hard work "so their husbands will feel guilty enough to do the dishes." When a reader challenged him to try his own hand...