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...Baroda; United Artists), the whodunit that is the late Gary Cooper's last picture, is a waste of a good man. As a buildup, the film's promoters have decreed that large red lights shall flash outside theaters for the last 13 minutes of each performance to warn curiosity-maddened customers that all attempts to storm the box office during that period will be repulsed. But like the Maginot line, the fortifications work only one way; there is no provision to withstand charges from customers already inside the theaters who want...
...about is what is going to happen. A Hemingway character does not make things happen; things happen to him. Hemingway's people often seem like masochistic spectators of their own doom. In The Killers, Nick Adams rushes to the boardinghouse room of the ex-prizefighter Ole Andreson to warn him that two gangsters are in town to kill him. "There isn't anything I can do about it," says Ole Andreson. lying on his bed and turning his face fatalistically to the wall. There isn't anything any Hemingway character can do about his fate except...
...main blast virtually destroyed the few remaining hopes that Moscow might agree to a ban on nuclear-weapons testing. To President Kennedy's warning that the U.S. might have to begin testing again if no agreement is reached in Geneva, Khrushchev retorted: "Such threats will frighten no one. We must warn these gentlemen: the moment the United States resumes nuclear explosions, the Soviet Union will promptly start testing its nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union has quite a few devices that have been worked out and need practical testing." In fact, said Khrushchev, echoing an argument often made by protesting...
...month ago, Khrushchev sounded off to a U.A.R. parliamentary delegation visiting Moscow. "If our people live under Communism better than you, why should you declare yourself against Communism?" he asked, according to a transcript released by the U.A.R. just last week. "I warn you. History will teach you. Ideologies cannot be buried in prisons. Your people will ask you to step aside and demand that they handle their own affairs." Soon the Moscow press was condemning the U.A.R. as an "ingrate" and mourning the fate of a Lebanese Communist, Riadel Turk, who had supposedly been tortured to death in prison...
...with Soviet dictators-even when the U.S. was dealing from strength. There was no doubt that Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier foreign policies currently in a state of some disarray, was taking a chance. But Kennedy felt confident that he could look Khrushchev squarely in the eye and effectively warn him that despite recent reverses, neither the President nor the U.S. could safe ly be pushed around. There were some who argued the necessity of the exercise: the Communists are pretty cock-a-hoop these days, sure that they can toy with the nuclear talks, conquer Laos, wreck...