Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inside G.M., Curtice's brisk efficiency is genuinely respected. Wilson used to keep the staff (including Executive Vice President Curtice) waiting around for hours while he made decisions. But Curtice is swift in decision and rarely wrong. If executives do not expect compassionate sympathy, they do expect-and get-justice. One result: there is little infighting in G.M.'s executive suites. Says Executive Vice President Albert Bradley: "We are all living in glass houses, and we go to great lengths to play fair with each other...
...JONATHAN SWIFT (508 pp.) - John Middleton Murry-Noonday Press...
Hunter & Javelin. As a result, the R.A.F. currently relies on U.S. F-86 Sabre jets for much of its first-line defense, while Britain's own planes have fallen victim of one slowdown after another. Items: Swift, designed by the builders of World War II's famed Spitfire, was first ordered in 1950. So many troubles cropped up that four versions have been scrapped; a fifth has just been put into production only for reconnaissance...
...simple and for this reason I leave it to the others who are much better informed. But one thing is certain, and that is, when one is treating social relations as they exist in America today, the world situation should make him stop and reflect along with Dean Swift in a Tale of a Tub, that, "...When a man's fancy gets astride of his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense is kicked out Doors; the first Proselyte he makes is Himself, and when that is once compasse...
Samurai (Homel; Fine Arts Films] rivets the eye with its swift alternations of animal ferocity and morning calm. Like the prizewinning Gate of Hell (TIME, Dec. 13), this new Japanese film begins with a disordered 17th century battle piece: a flood of lance-waving horsemen surge across a meadow; agile warriors skip and pirouette in a whirling of two-handed blades; the defeated topple, with blood bursting between their clenched teeth. The struggle ends in far-off shouting as mists steal down from the mountains to draw a pale blanket over the slain...