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Lure of the Wilderness (20th Century-Fox) is a title presumably meant to describe Jean Peters, a shapely swamp girl who runs around Georgia's Okefenokee mudflats dressed in tight-fitting buckskin shirt and trousers and armed with a bow & arrow. Jean lives in the swamp with her father (Walter Brennan), who has been hiding out from the law for eight years because he once killed a man in self-defense. One day a handsome youth (Jeffrey Hunter) ventures into the Okefenokee to search for his missing dog, and stumbles on Jean. What is this strange, perplexing passion that...
Corruption. When a party is too long in power, corruption grows, and the Republicans will benefit from voters' realization that the Democrats are caught in this familiar swamp...
...infested Viet Nam, raiding its villages, waylaying its merchants and preaching revolt in the Royal Khmer (i.e., Cambodian) army. The Reds posed as patriots, burning to liberate Cambodia from French imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied on their monarch, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk...
Meanwhile, reports from Okeefenokee Swamp indicate that the creature who could prove to be the political surprise of the year may go on a stomping tour throughout the country. As advance propaganda, manager Walt Kelly sent the above, promising others when the movement gains headway...
...freshman track team scored 58 out of a possible 63 points in the running events Saturday and went on to swamp Exeter, 90 1/2 to 35 1/2. The victory was the freshmen's third straight...