Word: ac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specially appointed DC-6, soon followed by two other planes bearing a retinue of 58 courtiers and five court jesters. Ostensibly, King Saud was merely returning the Kuwait ruler's visit to Saudi Arabia last October. But word in the souks was that the Saudi monarch had ac tually come to get acquainted with Sheik Abdullah al Mubarak, who, although 25 years the junior of Kuwait's ruler, is nonetheless his uncle and is slated to succeed...
...customary turmoil last week. On his swing through 18 nations, he had picked up five honorary degrees, nine decorations and still another shapely airline hostess to go nightclubbing with: a 22-year-old Hawaiian beauty queen named Carol Ah You, who works for Great Lakes Air Lines and ac companied the President from San Fran cisco to Hawaii. Said Bung Karno, step ping off a charted Pan American DC-6B still staffed by favorite stewardess No. i, 25-year-old Joan Sweeney: "This has been much more successful than my earlier trips." But the old place was not much...
According to Luke - generally accepted as author of the Acts of the Apostles - young Saul was sent to Jerusalem to study under the great rabbi Gamaliel. True to the Jewish tradition that a rabbi must have a trade so that he will never have to ac cept money for teaching the law of God, Saul was a tentmaker...
Eisenstein's Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) bears little resemblance to the historical figure. According to some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin...