Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most noticeable in the Peace Corps office is the people. They don't stroll through the halls, they walk with a brisk stride, if not a canter. They type furiously, answer telephones at a fantastic rate, and always seem to be smiling...
Booby Traps & Bridges. It is an ugly, elusive war, fought with all the clever stunts in the guerrilla's handbook, not all of them deadly. Gangs disguised as official mosquito-spray teams walk into villages to confiscate farm equipment in the name of the government; sometimes they tear up peasants' identity cards to disrupt local administration; the Communists even managed to sabotage the national census by substituting falsified lists in some areas. The Viet Cong, which is what the Communist Vietnamese are called, are everywhere: tossing grenades into isolated villages in the rice fields in the south, sowing unrest among...
...stew himself with vodka. Then he sees a five-year-old orphan boy gnawing at a melon rind. Out of pity and his own sorrow, he tells the child that he is his father. The boy is not really fooled, but he accepts the pretense with joy. The two walk off down a mud road to the man's village, where he will take up life as a carpenter again...
...with an oil-slick partner (Michael Wilding) and a blackmailer (Eric Portman). Every five minutes or so, Actress Kerr's lip trembles; Coop says, "We're going home and talk this thing through," and sure enough, they do. It is a fine, sentimental thing to watch Coop walk across a room, long arms held out from his hips, hands curving in toward invisible six-guns, and it is a useful time killer, while the plot boils on, to speculate about how a director might have made Coop a credible villain...
...highway to aid a fellow motorist. "Generator trouble." explained the swarthy stranger as he asked to borrow Boothroyd's flashlight. Then he produced a rifle and demanded money. Boothroyd threw his wallet-containing $250-to the ground, but Mrs. Sullivan angrily snatched up the wallet and turned to walk away. The bandit fired, and Mrs. Sullivan fell with a bullet in her brain. Then the murderer shot Boothroyd twice in the face. In the Volkswagen, Denise Sullivan tried to drive off. But the bandit jumped into his dusty sedan, ran Denise off the road, and pulled her into...