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Deposited unhurt on a deserted coral island by a plane during an atomic war, they form the responsible vacationland democracy that their heritage calls for, and it gradually degenerates into anarchy, barbarism and murder. When adult rescue finally comes, they are a tribe of screaming painted savages hunting down their elected leader to tear him apart. The British naval officer who finds them says, "I should have thought that a pack of British boys would have been able to put up a better show than that." Then he goes back...
Starts Wednesday: A poorly-conceived and ill-starred (Dolores Hart, George Hamilton) little comedy called WHERE THE BOYS ARE offers a woefully misleading picture of Florida's Ft. Lauderdale vacationland. Boys meet girls head on--and the naughty little filly that goes too far (here's Hollywood morality for you) ends up in an auto accident. In the hearts of the others, true chaste love has blossomed, and their reward is a quiet kiss in a coupe. Not worth your while. The second feature is some-what more interesting: an Academy Award winning color documentary on the animals...
...fishing boat and by yacht, by commercial airliner or hijacked plane, an estimated 500 Cubans each day are now fleeing Castro's Cuba, and most of them converge on Miami. By last week an incongruous lump of more than 30,000 worried Cubans had crowded into the winter vacationland, and more were coming...
Thus last week did the commotion over the Administration's budget for fiscal 1958 follow Dwight Eisenhower to vacationland. Actually, the President was already moving toward a dramatic new effort to quell the continuing controversy. By writing House Speaker Sam Rayburn a 2,454-word message on suggested budget cuts (see below), Eisenhower even placated Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, the man who had tossed the first budget match. Clearly still a member of the Administration's happy family, Humphrey too headed South and, as the President's house guest, he was greeted at Bush airport...
Klystron Tubes & Muck. Like all good Floridians, Roy Collins is proud of Miami Beach; more than most, he is aware of the danger of resting the state's economy too heavily on a vacationland-even in a nation where winter vacations are becoming more and more routine...