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...court. Queen Elizabeth (Blanche Thebom) ships Wilton off to Turkey to avoid permitting a misalliance with his inamorata Lady Anne (Doris Yarick). There the michievous Sultan (played to perfection by an appropriately ponderous Ezio Flagello) imprisons Jack in order to keep an excellent organ player. A Venetian damsel in distress named Dorina (actually not in a dress at all, but disguised as a janissary, afraid of the tortures of the Sultan's seraglio, joins Wilton and begs him to help her escape. Jack promises the Sultan to turn Dorina-in-disguise into a musician better than himself within one month...
...there is a peculiar logic to the story, which finds expression in Claudia's changing attitude--distress at Anna's disappearance, shock at Sandro's advances, attraction to Sandro, shame at her behavior, and finally an unreasoned love in which her shame is slowly lost...
Chou En-lai went on to chide Khrushchev for his "public denunciation" of Albania: "To openly display in the enemy's presence disputes between brother countries cannot be regarded as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach, and can only distress friends and delight our enemies...
...Saigon, a U.S. embassy aide pointed out that "since Colonel Nam worked with the I.C.C. since its founding, this can be considered an affront to the commission itself." One I.C.C. member confessed his "distress" over the incident, then asked plaintively: "But what can we do about it? We have no power to act in such cases...
Candid Camera (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dorothy Collins poses as a motorist in distress, waving down passing suckers to help her change a flat, asking each one to please work quietly to avoid disturbing her husband, who is asleep in the back seat. Repeat...