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Nothing is much better than all right in this black-and-white morality play adapted from Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair. Mitchum plays Mitchum with laconic assurance, and a cast of veteran character actors is warmed up for a first-rate courtroom drama, a la Caine Mutiny, that only makes it to second. Some of the fault must lie with Director Guy Hamilton, who borrows his pace from those fans that whir lazily overhead in every tropical sinkhole. But justice triumphs, and the made-in-England script gives the saving final testimony to Trevor Howard (so rational...
BURTON by Byron Farwell. 431 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...middle-of-the-road Center Union coalition had bagged 174 of 300 parliamentary seats for a comfortable 70-seat margin over the right-wing National Radical Union of former Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who exiled himself to Paris three months ago. A spellbinding if sometime demagogic orator, Papandreou, 76, won Winston Churchill's admiration as Greece's first post-war Premier, is a wily, popular anti-Communist who can work with Greek leftists without raising their hackles as Karamanlis did. Papandreou has salted his top Cabinet posts with fiscal conservatives, is pledged primarily to rural redevelopment and to raising...
When secession talk began to sweep through Alabama after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the leaders of Winston County in the northern hill country held a meeting and decided that if their state seceded from the Union, their county would secede from the state. The county's delegate to the secession convention in Montgomery duly voted to remain in the Union, and state authorities put him in jail. In the years since then, Winston County has changed little. It remains independent and proud of it, a staunchly Republican island in a Democratic sea. Alabamians often refer...
...most eminent living son of Winston County is Frank Minis Johnson Jr., 45, judge of the U.S. District Court for Middle Alabama. A steady, even-toned spokesman of the law, Judge Johnson is a Republican, a Lincoln man and a sturdy adherent of principle. His nickname is Straight Edge, and it fits...