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...matador's hat, cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
Ever since Aristotle Socrates Onassis signed an agreement with King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz to form a company for shipping Saudi Arabian oil (TIME, Feb. 22), the Greek-born tanker tycoon has found his scuppers awash with criticism. Other shippingmen attacked the deal as a step toward monopolizing the shipment of Saudi Arabian oil;* the British and U.S. Governments both protested to Saudi Arabia that the deal would squeeze out shipping companies now carrying the oil. And Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) complained that its interests as a producer were endangered...
...Heavenly Mud. The country around the little town of Lovington, N. Mex. got not only torrential rains but tons of window-cracking, chicken-killing hail. Power lines were knocked out, low-lying houses were inundated; in west Texas, schools closed and highways were awash with silt-brown water. At Snyder, Texas, an earthen dam, weakened by the long, dry spell, gave way; 50 oil-well sites were flooded out. Near Hobbs, N. Mex., 100 sheep marched into a flooded ditch and drowned en masse...
...London's bright new look. For months, the old city had looked as untidily unattractive as a dowager in a wrapper, curlers and mudpack. Statues were boarded up, the handsome old clubs in St. James and Pall Mall were defaced with iron scaffoldings, half of Westminster Square lay awash in cold rows of unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind...
Producer Dore Schary hoped that Plymouth Adventure would "humanize" the Pilgrims, but they never emerge on the screen as flesh-and-blood characters. Ihe picture has a spectacular Atlantic storm, but most of the time the Pilgrims -and the audience-are merely awash in a sea of florid dialogue...