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...crisis, the King still finds his efforts to achieve stability in Jordan blocked by the Palestinian refugees, that disgruntled one-third of the nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could see the broad, fertile fields of Israel...
...grows up in 16th century Germany in the company of an angel, but loses her impulse to sainthood when she decides that she wants to be his mate. The angel disappears in an angry burst of flame, and Renata keeps looking for him until she at last runs afoul of the Inquisition and is sentenced to death at the stake. Part of the fascination of this murky Gothic tale is that most of it exists in Renata's own mind, and much of the opera remains perilously poised between tragedy and low farce...
...boycotted the local celebration almost to a man, gave vent to their anger at De Gaulle by jeering a column of weary soldiers returning from a long search in the hills for the kidnapers. And in Algiers, a mob of 500 students shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" ran afoul of truncheon-swinging police. "Unprovoked police brutality," snapped bearded Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the storming of the Government General Building a year ago. "There were no seditious remarks." But what about the cry of "De Gaulle to the gallows?" a reporter asked. "Its meaning may be seditious," replied Lagaillarde...
...small way, with a chain of North African brothels. But when they aimed at bigger things, there was trouble: Salvatore Messina was jailed in Egypt for six months, and when the other brothers-Alfredo, Eugene, Attilio, Carmello-tried to set up houses in France, Spain and Italy, they ran afoul of competitors...
...Miss Rovegliano." Little Doll first met Big Pasquale when, as a buxom peasant girl of 19, she won a beauty contest and became "Miss Rovegliano." They got along fine together until Big Pasquale ran afoul of an old friend, tough-talking Tony Esposito. There had been bad blood between the two men ever since Big Pasquale did time for hitting a man with a monkey wrench. When he got out of jail, he found that Tony had taken over the business...