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...evidence seemed to justify the death penalty that State Prosecutor Altay Egesel so frequently demanded for both Menderes and Bayar. (So far, death has been demanded for Bayar on four separate counts, for Menderes on seven, including the comparatively trivial Istanbul expropriations case.) In the eyes of many, the circus-like atmosphere of the trials demeaned such points as the prosecution was able to make. Sharp sallies against Menderes & Co. by Prosecutor Egesel and the presiding judge are applauded by a courtroom claque, responses by the defendants jeered...
...last previous cleric to be publicly unfrocked for adultery, the late Rector of Stiffkey, turned circus performer and was devoured by a lion. Thomas, choosing a safer pursuit, has turned journalist. Even as the congregation prayed hopefully for the vicar's "true repentance and amendment of life," Thomas was cheerfully splashing his life story across the front pages of the Sunday newspapers. As he told it, his plight was that female parishioners continually threw themselves at him. Said Thomas: "When I look back upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Depressing or delightful, according to how the viewer views education: 200 Florida State University students doing circus acts for which many of them get college credits...
After two weeks of bewildering political warfare, there is a truce in Student Council bickering. Last week a committee of seven assembled in the Dunster House Common room and quietly began to discuss the future of Harvard student government. Calm and deliberative, the meeting contrasted sharply with the circus atmosphere that has reigned in college politics...
...however, Parisians have obstinately refused to dig one aspect of Gleason's traveling circus: its title. Gigot was suggested by U.S. Crooner Andy Russell, a friend of Gleason who speaks restaurant French, when Jackie asked what one might call "a poor soul who just sort of lambs around." The trouble is that Russell was too literal-minded; gigot means merely "leg of mutton," and bilingual Frenchmen are wondering in some puzzlement whether Americans would laugh if Tati, for instance, made a movie in the U.S. and called himself "Rolled Rib Roast...