Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNIVERSITY: Otto Preminger, having disfigured G. B. Shaw (you must remember his "Saint Joan" of several years back), how has a crack at history itself: and the result is a seldom-recognizable version of the Israeli struggle for independence from British stewardship and Arab hatred, called EXODUS -- after a novel of that name to which it also bears but slight resemblance. The cast is as large as the film is long; stars include Paul Newman, Eve Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb and (inevitably) Sal Mineo. Afternoons and evenings...
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT...
Sukarno may be a bumbling administrator, but he is an expert on survival. With the help of one crack but overworked regiment of paratroopers, he quickly routed the Sumatran rebels in half a dozen brief and mostly bloodless battles, and drove the remnants into the hills. In the other islands, Sukarno sent troops against diehard colonels and won submission from pliable ones by giving them a free hand in running their areas once they had given him their allegiance. He also quietly redressed many of the economic grievances that had spurred the revolt...
According to those who were there, Che started off with a smiling crack about the abortive, U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. He really ought to thank the U.S., said Che, because it gave Castro the victory he needed to achieve world prestige. Answered Goodwin: It was too bad Castro had not followed it up by an attack on the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. Che replied that under no circumstances would Cuba attack...
Hardened by such defeats, John Masters was a tough, battlewise lieutenant colonel during the final, crushing campaign against the Japanese. For six hours one day he got the chance to command the crack 19th Indian Infantry Division in combat-"the summit and culmination of my military life . . . The experience itself made me understand even more fully Lee's saying that it is fortunate war is so terrible, otherwise men would love it too much...