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...just one more Yul Brynner movie. In detail, it is something quite different: a wildly funny satire. Brynner's part is taken by the Rao Jagnabad, a glitteringly bejeweled, savagely personable hunter-princeling known as the Nine-Tiger Man. When the Sepoy Mutiny erupts in Delhi, the English dispatch their women to the Rao's palace, confident that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death...
That embarrassment is easily trebled as I marvel at the clarity, the wit, the gay dispatch with which critics have flayed the hide off poor Norman Mailer (who cares so terribly much what they think--even the ones he most despises) and left him in paunchy, shivering nakedness, his eyes to the ground, his hands over his genitals, like some pugnacious locker-room bull artist exposed as a virgin in front of the whole damn team...
...despite Washington's silence on the initial $60,000 request ("we haven't even received a postcard," Moot says), the committee will dispatch two more applications to the capital this week. If approval comes back before mid-June--and the very tardiness of the requests and the slowness in Washington make this an imponderable--the committee hopes to have three pilot projects underway this summer...
Tactful Observers. The second try was hardly more successful than the first. President Kasavubu and some 2,000 other citizens succeeded in marking their ballots, but no one else made the grade. The government had to dispatch squads of paracommandos to keep frustrated voters from breaking into the polls, and Premier Moise Tshombe called an emergency Cabinet meeting to reschedule the elections...
...happened, the attack was called off. But Faas hurried back to Saigon and told Australian-born A.P. Reporter Peter Arnett what he had seen. Within hours, Arnett sent clattering out over A.P.'s wires a dispatch that began: "U.S. and Vietnamese military forces are experimenting with nonlethal gas warfare in South Viet...