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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foremost in the attempt to train men to resist torture is the U.S. Air Force. At the Stead Air Force Base near Reno, nearly 30,000 airmen have gone through a course in which some of the ugliest Communist methods of handling prisoners are followed. Herded behind barbed wire for a 36-hour interrogation period, the "prisoners" are subjected to electrical shocks, crammed into an upright box where they can neither sit nor stand, forced to stand shoulder deep in water for hours of darkness, fed a mixture of raw spinach and uncooked spaghetti, made to stand naked before their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Training by Torture | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...thought you ought to know the sun ain't nevuh set on a live nigguh in this town.' So I wrapped my constitutional rights in Cellophane, tucked 'em in my hip pocket and got out of sight. And, believe me, I caught the next train out of there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Tension of Change | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...other story happened years later when Lawyer Marshall was in a small Mississippi town, waiting for a train to Shreveport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Tension of Change | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...movie needs all the publicity help it can get. Jimmy is a U.S. cavalryman burning to avenge his brother, slain by the Apaches. Disguising himself as the bossman of a mule train, he sets out for a small town on the edge of Apacheland and, unloading his merchandise, moves out to some nearby salt lagoons to get a cargo for his return trip. Suddenly a line of horsemen come galloping along the skyline. Apaches? No, it's a psychotic cowboy (Alex Nicol) and his henchmen. Before you can say "Oedipus complex," Nicol has galloped down the ridge, lassoed Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...trails Nicol into town, thrashes him and then pitches into Nicol's keeper, Arthur Kennedy. This brawl is suspended by the arrival, in turn, of Nicol's father (Donald Crisp), who owns all the country for miles around. He offers to pay damages for the mule train if Jimmy will just leave town. But then, where would the picture be? So Jimmy sticks around, makes mild love to Cathy O'Donnell, outfights a treacherous assailant, shoots Nicol in the hand, exposes Kennedy as a seller of guns to the Apaches and, in short, tidies up a multitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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