Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohio Democrat Michael Kirwan, floor manager for the measure, declared that "every dollar in this bill represents an investment in America, and the benefits come back to us a hundredfold." Members who ordinarily bang the economy drum loudly, including Arizona Republican John Rhodes (whose state benefits from a Western power-development project that gets $21,600,000 this year) and Mississippi Democrat Jamie Whitten (who could claim $4,000,000 for his state), extolled Kirwan. "I have come to love him," said Whitten, "and to appreciate his great contributions to our nation...
...three cities-Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang-and is the Chicago of China-the transportation hub of the vast country. Its great double-decked vehicular and railroad bridge is the only span across the 3,100-mile length of the Yangtze between Nanking near the coast and Chungking in the western mountains. It is also one of Communist China's key industrial centers, pouring a quarter of the country's steel and producing such important products as machine tools and paper, cement pipe and canned goods...
...punch a few women instead. Never waste a punch when a knee in the groin will do. Eliminate the love interest; it gets in the way of the violence. Surly, coldblooded, money grubbing antiheroes are the best, especially if they grunt a lot. And, most important for the successful western, it should be filmed in Spain by an Italian company with a cast of American stars and Italian and Spanish gypsy extras...
Such is the surefire formula of Italian Director Sergio Leone, 38, whose "macaroni westerns" are the fastest draw in theaters from Youngstown to Yokohama. A veteran of spear-and-sandal epics, he converted to shoot-'em-ups three years ago. To lend a scent of sagebrush to his first western, Leone changed his name to Bob Robertson and imported Clint Eastwood, a lanky, rawboned drover on TV's Rawhide. Eastwood's image was too clean-cut for an antihero, so Leone added the necessary smudges-slouch hat, black cheroot, stubble beard and a ratty-looking scrape...
Prohibition Next. Leone would never be guilty of such a discrepancy. A cowboy buff since childhood, he has read 35 books on the subject, once spent a month researching the Old West in the Library of Congress. When he asked Eli Wallach to star in his latest Italian western, the actor cracked: "That must be something like a Hawaiian pizza." Wallach learned different when he arrived in Spain to shoot The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and found that Leone had meticulously reproduced settings and costumes from copies of old U.S. newspapers and photo albums. "He has a fantastic...