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...warning. When accosting a foreign policeman, only one form is acceptable: "Excuse me, kind, brave and gracious sir, but could...
Robert Ardrey's script much too neatly points up the similarity between fanatic Mahdi and fanatic general, and invents two dramatic confrontations between them that never occurred. But such blatant departures from history are rare. Vividly directed by Basil Dearden, Khartoum evokes the spirit and likeness of a brave, baffling soldier...
...present, the lounges are open only to members. The "club" tradition start ed in the early days of flying as a reward for the brave, pioneer passengers. The clubs charge no membership fees and have rather vague qualifications for admission. In the lingo of the lines' public-relations people, Pan American's Clipper Club, the biggest of them all, with 175,000 members, is for travelers "who have made a contribution to international understanding"; American's 100,000-strong Admirals Club is for people who have made "a contribution to aviation"; the 100,000 members...
...reached the explosive stage last week on the night before shooting was scheduled to begin. Police arrested Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys with a 900-year-old pedigree in Burke's Peerage (family motto: "Look Here for a Brave Spirit") on charges of trying to set fire to an outhouse near the dam. A wine importer, Christopher Knight, 23, was also hauled in, accused of trying to blow up the dam itself. On the same night, police also apprehended a car carrying two more young men and a giant...
...mixes obtuse observations of native customs with exuberant how-dy-do's ("Say hello, Lance. Atta baby!") to some of his surfing pals visited along the way. Perhaps wisely, Brown leaves analysis of the surf-cult mystique to seagoing sociologists, but demonstrates quite spiritedly that some of the brave souls mistaken for beachniks are, in fact, converts to a difficult, dangerous and dazzling sport...