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...general run of tony, tasteful and sometimes tedious British drawing-room dramas that arrive regularly on these shores. There is, for one thing, scarcely a drawing room to be found. The beautifully detailed production moves with ease from the grand country estate of Lord and Lady Dedlock (Robin Bailey and Diana Rigg) to the drab chambers of Chancery and into the sad, grimy streets of London slums. South African Director Ross Devenish shot much of the drama in moody semidarkness, with scenes lit only by the soft glow of a lantern or the flickering of candlelight...
...Greatest Show on Earth" has drawn acts from everywhere on the globe, except the People's Republic of China. But this year the "plentitudes of pachyderm precision" at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have been joined by "a charismatic, candescent constellation of allegiant acrobatics," by which the circus shills mean the 15-member Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. The booking took nearly 14 years of talks with the Peking government. To make their guests comfortable, the circus stocked up on rice "by the major bagful," built a special train car with a Chinese-style kitchen...
...Heathrow Airport with a 3¼-lb. bomb and a detonator in her luggage. "You bastard you! How could you do that to me?" she shrieked. "I hate you! I hate you!" Hindawi, also 32, appeared unmoved by the outburst. As his trial began last week at London's Old Bailey courthouse, Hindawi faced charges of trying to blow up an El Al jet by planting a time bomb in the bag of his pregnant fiancée. Had the plot succeeded, Murphy and the 374 other people aboard would have perished somewhere over Austria. Declared Prosecutor Roy Amlot...
Hindawi was not the only one on trial at the Old Bailey. According to Amlot, Hindawi told British police that Syrian military-intelligence officers had helped plan the attack, supplying him with a Syrian passport and $12,000 as well as the Czech-made plastic explosives found in Murphy's carry-on satchel. "There is convincing evidence," Amlot told the twelve jurors, "he was acting in concert with agents of the Syrian government." Hindawi has pleaded not guilty...
...April 1955, Seymour E. Harris ’20, professor of economics, predicted that by 1970 there would be a 75 percent increase nationwide in college-bound students due to the national trend of accelerated population and income growth. Later that month, David W. Bailey, secretary to the Harvard Corporation, reported an upward trend in the number of students accepted to the College in a pamphlet entitled “Notes on Harvard College: Graphic and Statistical...