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Drawling Dale Robertson and baby-faced Anne Francis saunter through the Haitian underbrush as if they were taking a Sunday stroll in a botanical garden. In a )rief but effective appearance, Ken Renard plays Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti's "ounding father, who, judging from the movie, was on hand mainly to give Robertson moral support. But it is deep-voiced William Marshall who towers above the rest of the cast physically and histrionically as fictional Haitian Patriot King Dick...
...gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future may hold...
Point of Agreement. Before the investigation fell into procedural futility, it had already cleared away underbrush and established some points on which Democrats and Republicans generally agreed. Among them...
...north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush. Another pile of 15 lay sprawled in a cornfield. Others lay in a mass grave by the railroad tracks. General Allen counted 68 dead. There were 21 survivors, who were immediately flown to Japan...
...cult is smoldering through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week its bible, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. Demand was especially heavy on the West Coast. Bookstores in Los Angeles were selling Dianetics on an under-the-counter basis. Armed with the manual, which they called simply "The Book," fanatical converts overflowed Saturday night meetings in Hollywood, held dianetics parties, formed clubs, and "audited" (treated) each other...