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Behind a gold-painted locomotive, a trainload of G.M. brass rolled into Flint, Mich, last week to celebrate the production of G.M.'s 50 millionth car. While G.M. President Harlow Curtice looked on, a gold-plated Chevrolet rolled off the assembly line. At lavish luncheons in 52 hotels scattered through the U.S., and in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, another 15,000 invited guests watched the festivities over the most extensive closed-circuit TV network ever rigged...
...without friends, however, and the next day they began arriving in Washington. From McCarthy's own Wisconsin came a pitiful little caravan (which had been stalled for a night in Kenosha with an ailing engine coil) consisting of two cars and a truck. From New York came a trainload of Mc-Carthyites headed by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, director of the American Jewish League Against Communism, whose slogan is: "Strike terror into the hearts of Flanders and Malenkov." One man wore a white suit and brandished a butterfly net, aping Joe's suggestion that Vermont's Senator Ralph...
...marching on the city. Christian, the son of an American doctor, and his Chinese friend Big Tiger, both twelve, venture out to fly a kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home by the only safe route - a 3,000-mile detour through the Gobi Desert. On their tremendous journey they have adventures enough to impress Tom Sawyer: a Living Buddha trusts them with a secret message, a great bandit prince bows...
Residents of the outside world are inclined to look upon the citizens of New York's Westchester County as the mink, martini & money set, with hardly a petty thief in a trainload. Last week George A. Williams, the New York Central Railroad's station agent at Chappaqua in northern Westchester, shattered that illusion. Agent Williams had made a painful discovery: he was losing as much as $12 a week from the "honor system" cash box on his newspaper stand. Williams bored a hole in the ceiling above the newsstand, poked the lens of a camera through, and took...
Only one scene is worthwhile. The bereaved wife, still hoping her husband is alive, goes to the railroad station to meet the last trainload of released prisoners. With alternate shorts of ragged, bearded men finding their families and the despairing woman looking for her husband, Lindtberg achieves a rare atmosphere of suspense, joy, and tragedy...