Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangers on a Train (Warner), Alfred Hitchcock's latest thriller, winds up with a scene in which a merry-go-round goes wild, spins like a pin wheel, and crashes in a gaudy blaze of explosions that no earthly carrousel could touch off. The movie itself is the same way: implausible but intriguing and great fun to ride...
...Confidence Game. Guidance sessions (which sometimes bring more than 400 newsmen to the Press Club to hear a big wheel) often permit correspondents to seem wiser in print with "dope" stories than they really are. And the confidence game has also brought a great evil in its train: the camaraderie between officials and newsmen encourages Government officials to keep facts off the record which should be published, enables them to dodge responsibility for phony stories, permits unscrupulous bureaucrats and politicos to backstab opponents with impunity. Furthermore, even competent correspondents who are constantly being "guided" by off-the-record conferences occasionally...
...packs of ordinary citizens who crowd by car, bus and train to the arid site of Minosa's entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming...
...best available reports coming out of China indicated that Archbishop Riberi's letter had put a sizable sprag in the Communist wheel. The Independent Catholic movement, which a few months ago had looked like a threatening schism, seemed to be making little headway, with clerical support limited to a handful of obscure priests...
...asked the Russians to follow the truck to the Soviet zone border at Enns Bridge, about 80 miles away. When the Russian driver, Sergeant Vasily Elistratov, refused to start the Russians' big black Mercedes, G.I.s dragged him from the driver's seat. A U.S. lieutenant took the wheel and drove the Russians to the border. When they arrived, one of the escorting Americans shook hands with Elistratov, remarked: "I'm sorry it had to happen this way." Said Sergeant Elistratov, with tears in his eyes, before he crossed into the Red zone: "I'm sorry...