Word: visitores
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...wake Cowling up!" and start shooting at a metal ball in the ceiling light fixture. It always scared the daylights out of Sales Manager W. C. Cowling, who had the office above. Bennett, a sharpshooter himself, once blasted a bad-smelling cigar out of the mouth of a visitor who ignored his request...
...20th Century-Fox), by far the best of Hollywood's recent flights into science-fiction, combines a glimpse into the futuristic marvels of outer space with a thoughtful look at the seedy old earth of 1951. Like The Thing (TIME, May 14), it is the story of a visitor from another planet. But Klaatu (Michael Rennie) is no villainous monster; he is an ultra-civilized human being who makes the earthmen, by contrast, look like a monstrous race of Yahoos...
...hospital bed, the visitor receives a White House secretary, explains in perfect English (learned from an interplanetary radio receiver) that the future of the earth hinges on his mission; he can discuss it only before representatives of all the world's nations. But diplomatic red tape and international tensions make such a meeting impossible. Bent on learning more about the earth's strange ways, Klaatu escapes from the hospital, pilfers an earthling's business suit and, as a lodger in a Washington boarding house, becomes the sanest, calmest man on the planet...
...wish. At the Fain family's request, the Navy Department took Sergeant Tiritilli-a husky, somber soldier of 30-away from his duties at Norfolk, flew him to Independence. Fain was dying by the time the sergeant arrived at his bedside. But when his wife whispered the visitor's name, Fain opened his eyes, smiled, squeezed the sergeant's hand...
Tension is contagious. A visitor catches it immediately upon landing at the U.S. Air Force's Tullin Field. He gets his passport checked and then a mimeographed sheet from the commanding officer warning him not to go out of the city districts, not to speak with Russian soldiers, and not to photograph Russian installations. A previous memorandum advises that censors strike out anti-Soviet remarks in letters...