Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old team leader, was not the sort to walk away from trouble. Handy with his fists, fluent in Texmex Spanish,* he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz, before he went south to help stamp out aftosa. He had handled plenty of tough situations; he figured he could handle this...
Three hours later, Sanchez was carried into Toluca hospital. Government police fanned out over the hills looking for Proctor. Only after getting tough with the farmers were they led to a mountain grave. There they found the battered body of Roberto Proctor. He was the ninth official (and second American) to die at the hands of superstitious Mexican farmers fearful that anti-aftosa teams came to do them harm instead of good...
Lucky Girls. The chief worry of Joint Directors Reich and Loebbert is providing the tough, worldly-wise adolescents who come to Adelheide with some skill or trade with which to make their way in postwar Germany. Every week, from 20 to 30 young wanderers turn up there-boys like 17-year-old, shock-haired Karl Waldhauser, who had been drafted to work in a Russian-zone uranium mine. After three days on a pneumatic drill, Karl escaped and crossed the border at night. Says he: "I never get homesick. Maybe that's because my father and mother are dead...
...Mikan plans to play pro basketball for another three years or so, then perhaps take up politics. Basketball, he says, is too tough a game to play forever: "I want to keep the rest of my teeth-I've lost four already...
John Wayne, who can be remembered for his excellent performance in "Red River," does rather well as the hero, a tough sea captain. Where the script calls for fast, brutal action, Mr. Wayne provides some exciting moments, but he is obviously ill at ease when required to drool into the ear of his sweetheart, Gail Russell. Luther Adler plays opposite Wayne as a calculating Dutch trader. The part written for him is so ridiculous, so frighteningly sinister that it becomes impossible to tell whether he can act or not. A ham could wallow in this muck forever...