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Douglas Seale had been hired as director. A Briton with many years of Shakespearean experience, Seale, who will be remembered locally for his exciting Henry V in Sanders Theatre eight years ago, handled two of the Festival's plays last season. So he was far from an unknown quantity. In addition, Lester Rawlins, a fine award-winning actor, had been engaged to play Hamlet...
Duty to Run. It isn't easy. U.S. laws governing self-protection derive from the ancient English common law that held that a medieval Briton was obliged to retreat until his back was literally to a wall or a ditch before he was justified in fighting off an assailant. This so-called "retreat law" has been substantially modified in American courts, which have generally ruled that though a person must attempt to avoid trouble, he is not legally bound to flee if such action would increase his peril. Only Texas law ignores retreat altogether and permits an attacked person...
...Aswan Dam in Egypt. When Kuwait's government was pondering what to do with its sudden oil riches, it summoned Fakhri Shebab, an Iraq-born Oxford don; he conceived an $860 million regional-development fund that has extended loans to five Arab nations. Nicholas Kaldor, a Hungarian-born Briton, has drawn up budgets and tax programs for India and Ghana...
...their drive to win Britain's upcoming elections, the Laborites have heavily stressed the fact that rising land prices are making it increasingly difficult for the average Briton to buy or build his own home. To dampen widespread land speculation, Italy's left-leaning government is pushing for a law that would permit cities to expropriate land in rapidly expanding urban areas. In France, where Parisian land has jumped 70% in value in five years, an unfathomable maze of tax law has been passed to discourage profiteers. All over Europe, inflation on top of prosperity has sent...
Henry R. Luce who, with the late Briton Hadden, conceived and founded TIME and guided it to become Time Inc., with magazines having a circulation of 13 million around the world, last week announced his resignation as editor-in-chief. His successor is Hedley Donovan, 49, who has been editorial director since...