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...remote mountain valleys north of the capital city of San'a, the royalists encircled and began starving out two Egyptian garrisons of more than 1,000 men. Another group of dagger-wielding backers of the Imam clambered up rocky hills at dawn to catch Egyptian Brigadier Abdel Moneim Sinat and 200 of his paratroopers by surprise; they brought back Sinat's severed head as a trophy...
...assaulted by a couple of almost irresistible invitations to speak French. Due soon on U.S. TV screens are two sets of language teaching films, both particularly strong on the femine gender. In one series the teacher is trim Actress-Playwright Maria Mauban; the other displays British Cinemactress Dawn Addams, looking marvelously unacademic in a pair of black tights. And all either series asks of the televiewer is to learn French. Eh bien, pourquois...
Scholarly as well as sprightly, the shows constantly match language to life. Dawn Addams brandishes a sandwich to explain the French negative. The top piece of bread represents the ne, the filling the the bottom piece of bread the pas. Remember the sandwich." chirps Dawn reminding the viewer to use ne and pas and keep them apart. To teach the French possessive RTF uses a song-and-mime team called the Frères Jacques, who pretend to be burglars tirelessly dividing loot à moi; à toi, à toi, à lui, until even a Kansas City house dick would...
Unlike foreign movies. RTF's show has no problem dubbing in foreign speakers to translate for Actress Mauban. An off camera voice asks questions in the language of each country; she answers in French, keeps the teaching as "direct"' as possible. Dawn Addams' English has to suffer dubbing in in non-English-speaking countries but the rest of the cast goes right on in French...
...been a long time since the average American rose with the dawn and went to bed with the sun. It has even been quite a while since the average office opened at 8 a.m. Yet standard time, which is premised on such habits, has lingered on. Early-morning light is now a commodity traditionally considered precious only to farmers whose animals cry out for attention at dawn. The present-day American, becoming more urban every year, much prefers his extra hour of light to come at the other, after-work end of the day. So, at least, claimed New York...