Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long ago, Father Jacques decided that what his parish needed most was a good school, and he promptly set about building it. Where did he get the money? "Oh," said the little priest airily, "our good Lord helps me." This was not quite the whole truth, the crestfallen parishioners of Giadinh learned last week. Rounded up in a Saigon police court along with four other members of an auto-stealing gang, one Roberto Borsetti explained that Father Jacques had financed the new parish school by selling stolen cars. The cars, 17 in all, were snatched by Borsetti's crooks...
...truth seems to be, reported London Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent Denis Warner last week from Kabul, that most Afghans, official as well as unofficial, dislike and distrust foreigners, regardless of nationality. When the Afghan King left his Russian jet and was whisked to his palace on a five-lane Russian-built superhighway, it quite possibly marked the first time in several weeks that the highway had been used by anything more than a donkey cart. Russia has also supplied some $40 million in military aid "several" T-34 tanks, fairly modern artillery pieces, 32 MIG-17 fighter planes...
...Communism. The communiqué's talk of "working to remove obstacles" suggested that obstacles are still there. Obviously, Tito is not lightly going to surrender any of his nine-year-old independence; just as obviously, he is still a Communist. There was perhaps a smidgin of truth in a Russian commentator's remark: "The common objectives and tasks of our two countries are greater than our differences...
...with whom she danced, sported and gossiped, openly mocking the established grandees of Versailles. With young Axel Fersen, officer son of a Swedish general, she began an ardent love affair that lasted with mutual devotion to her dying day. Few details of their intimacy have survived, but of the truth of the romance, for a long time disputed, Castelot leaves no doubt...
Adapted from Michael Gazzo's hit play, the film is compassionately directed by Fred Zinnemann. As a courageous woman preferring the truth, no matter how grim, to uncertainty, no matter how disguised, Eva Marie has her best role since her Oscar-winning role in On the Waterfront. Addict Murray conquers with restraint-a happy departure from the screaming-meemie interpretation so often accorded the junky's part. To the end, Rain is true to its unflinching credo. The odds seem to be against the emancipation of an addict with one relapse already on his record. Rain abates with...