Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, Dwight Eisenhower has taken his son along as aide on important trips, e.g., the Big Four Conference in Geneva. In July he represented his father at the funeral of Guatemala's assassinated President Castillo Armas (TIME, Aug. 5). Last week he wound up his two-month chores for White House Brigadier General Andrew Goodpaster, the President's staff secretary, sifting the stream of secret reports which daily pour into the White House...
...yapping, grizzled Author Ernest Hemingway poked his head out the door of his home near Havana, found a squad of soldiers scouring the bushes for an insurrecto, lent them a flashlight and went back to bed. Next morning Papa discovered his dog Machakos (breed: "Cuban") dead of a head wound, presumably inflicted with a rifle butt, stormed down to the local military post but got no explanation, mournfully listed the pooch "killed in action...
There is commendable candor in the film's telling of its strange love story. Hemingway fans, anticipating how the movie might mistreat the tragic circumstance of the hero's sexual impotency resulting from a battle wound, will be happy to learn that Jake Barnes (sensitively played by Tyrone Power) is informed of his deficiency in exactly that term-"impotent." Nor is there any pussyfooting about the nymphomania of the heroine, who settles for all men in lieu of Jake whom she loves; as man-crazy Lady Ashley (Brett), Ava Gardner turns in the most realistic performance...
...Conspiracy. As the week wound up, 74-year-old Martin Lacey showed up to verify much of the testimony. The chartering of the Teamster phony locals, he said, tears in his eyes, was the result of "fraud and deception . . . a major conspiracy." Lacey was seconded by Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, Jimmy Hoffa's chief enemy in the Teamsters...
...Sultan of Johore, the world's longest-reigning monarch (since 1895) had declined the post because of his age (83). First up was the fun-loving Sultan of Pahang, who was rejected by his colleagues by a 3-to-6 vote, perhaps because his most recent romantic excursion wound up in a Moslem wedding to a Kuala Lumpur cabaret girl (TIME...