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...seemingly preposterous suit was no surprise in the strange world of admiralty law. Before he got off the hook, Dailey's employer had to fight up to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and prove that the seaman had been AWOL and was a chronic alcoholic to boot...
...GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has written a sharp-eyed comedy about a pair of newlyweds with an intimate marital problem and problem parents to boot. Naughton has some funny things to say, and Donald Wolfit and Marjorie Rhodes say them with polished expertise...
Girls & Frogmen. Marines are indoctrinated in boot camp that there is no such thing as a "friendly" beach, and as they dashed ashore, they were ready for anything-except perhaps the winsome welcoming committee of Vietnamese girls bearing garlands of yellow dahlias and red gladioli. Even General Karch, 47, and a very tough gent, was hard put to maintain his composure while being festooned with posies...
...Sambiase, a town of 12,000 at the tip of the Italian boot, a chilly wind whispers under the doors. The townspeople stare at each other meaningfully as a lonely dog howls in the hills. Then, with a roar of auto engines and a clatter of hoofbeats, Sambiase blows wide open. Bullets spray in all directions; a hand grenade booms against the wall of the police station. For 40 minutes the town rocks to gunfire and explosions before the attack recedes. At last police arrive from a nearby town. Is anything wrong? No, say the townspeople, nothing. Can anyone identify...
...Boot. The climax came when Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe, a moderate appointed by the Mwami to check Chinese influence, was assassinated only nine hours after naming his government (TIME, Jan. 22). Though the Chinese were not directly tied to the killing, most of the 25 persons later arrested were members of The Group and sympathetic to the Chinese line. Moreover, there was evidence that the Mwami was next on the assassination list. With that, Mwambutsa IV decided that discretion was the better part of diplomacy: he gave Ambassador Liu the boot. Though the Chinese expulsion was defined as "momentary," and Peking...