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...Klan. Sure enough, a little more detective work led them to one James Lackey, 28, an Athens gas station attendant. According to U.S. authorities, Lackey confessed that he was in on the ambush and implicated three fellow Klansmen-Garage Owner Herbert Guest, 37, a short, fat gun fancier; textile Yarn Plucker Cecil Myers, 25, who strutted around Athens toting a pistol; Machinist Joseph Sims, 41, a quick-tempered segregationist who was arrested in March for flourishing a pistol during a Negro demonstration. All are members of Clarke County Klavern...
Died. Catherine Evans Whitener, 83, who at the age of 15 snipped off each bit of yarn as it came through the cloth of a bedspread she was making, thus inventing the tufted bedspread, something that has since become one of Georgia's largest industries as mass production built up tufted textiles into a $500 million-a-year business; of cancer; in Dalton...
...years ago Kubrick, 35, got the rights to Peter George's 1958 novel Red Alert, then enlisted George and Co-Scenarist Terry Southern to help transmogrify that straightforward suspense yarn. By heightening the already striking surreality of mere humans blundering through a maze of buzzers, lighted dials, threat boards, hot lines and early warning systems toward world holocaust, Kubrick shot for a "nightmare comedy" and made...
HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama...
HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a vicious kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa coolly demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama...