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...Proud Rebel (Samuel Goldwyn Jr.; Buena Vista) is a sheep-country western that offers the customers little more than the chance to count sheep-with the predictable result that the picture is a 103-minute snore. The heroes are a Confederate veteran and his ailing son (played by Alan Ladd and his winsome, talented eleven-year-old son David). The boy saw his mother killed by Sherman's troops and was literally struck dumb at the sight. He and his father are wandering northward through what the script calls Illinois-actually a spectacular piece of Utah scenery-looking...
...Strong Are the Democrats? California Democrats have been adding new voters faster than the G.O.P., now claim a registration of 3,542,374 to the Republicans' 2,552,678. Democratic candidates have led in pre-primary straw votes. A strong Brown-Engle tide would give them a rosy vista for November...
...work more closely with the community. He will be free to do his own research and "some polemic writing," notably on the need to show U.S. art abroad. He will also have three months a year for vacation or travel. Says he contentedly, "it looks like a very attractive vista...
Stage Struck (RKO Radio; Buena Vista) is a vigorous second blossoming, this time in hothouse Technicolors, of Morning Glory, the sentimental success of 1933. First time out, the blooming little idiot of the title role was portrayed by a young comer named Katharine Hepburn, and the performance won her an Oscar and made her a star. This time around, the stage-struck heroine is played by a young (19) comer named Susan Strasberg-well known on Broadway for her work in The Diary of Anne Frank-and the performance seems sure to win her Hollywood stardom...
...bomblet, packing the wallop of 1,700 tons of TNT, exploded 800 ft. underground on the AEC's Nevada proving grounds, opened up a new vista for the peaceful uses of atomic explosives (see SCIENCE). But the prospect of the bright atomic future stirred up less interest in Washington than a dispute over how far away an underground A-bomblet's shock wave can be detected. Reason: the ability to detect or conceal a test explosion has a vital bearing on the growing debate over whether the U.S. should accept Russia's proposal for a suspension...