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Small, hard-bitten Adib Shishekly paced the floor of his presidential palace in Damascus one night last week, downing a highball or two. He was discouraged: everything seemed to be going wrong. For four years he had tried to unify and stabilize Syria, but the country was riddled with disaffection and on the edge of revolt. At that very hour, armed units patrolled the streets of Horns, Aleppo, and Damascus itself, and soldiers battled sullen Druze tribesmen in the remote mountainous province of Jebel Druze...
...love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced one of his cousins, then told the girl's accusing parents that "a person sitting on an ant-heap is going a bit far when they pretend to know which particular ant has bitten them"; the mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they think the criminal is one of them and because "a crime which outraged...
...large-scale reductions : defense. The smaller defense budget was made possible by Eisenhower's "new look" military program (see below), based on air-atomic power. In nondefense opera tions with flexible costs, which get only 10% of the budget, most of the reductions were the result of hard-bitten econ omy in operations. Some heralded the transfer of certain responsibilities to local governments, or to private enterprise, e.g., rural electrification was cut in the belief that private utilities can now do the job. For all of these nondefense opera tions where costs are not fixed, the President...
...realistic basis, two people so bitten with the success bug would find love only a momentary antidote. On a purely comic basis, His and Hers never really gets off the ground. So little free will is allowed the plot that something specially gay is needed in the writing; and the writing is so metallic as to seem mirthless. Beyond pleasant performances by Celeste Holm and Robert Preston, His and Hers offers only a certain smoothness...
...Southampton to South Africa. For O'Neill, the sea was a mystic experience. Some of his best plays, e.g., The Moon of the Caribbees and some of his worst, e.g., Anna Christie, are salty with the tang of the sea, saltier still with the tongue of lonely, hard-bitten sailormen...