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...match him, my Scottish cavalier, you may have to restrain your more glorious impulses." Since glory is box office, Taylor is in trouble. Things come to a head one night when "The Spider King" (Robert Morley), as history knows him, sits spinning his political web. "We are about to embark on a foul venture," he murmurs to a cackling familiar. "Foul and necessary, fit only for gypsies-and kings." The venture involves the betrayal of a lady fair (Kay Kendall) to a villain dark (Duncan Lament), and incidentally the death of Durward, her armed escort. However, when the sinister birds...
...served during and after the war. Canada is now negotiating with other Commonwealth countries and with the U.S. to withdraw all Canadian forces from the Far East. A Black Watch battalion originally scheduled to replace the homecoming Queen's Own got last-minute orders not to embark. The informal explanation was that Canada's participation in the Korean theater would probably be ended before the contingent could cross the Pacific...
...start their academic year, the Fellows come first not to Cambridge, but to Petersham and the Harvard Forest for an orientation period. Following an introduction to the program and a study of the Forest from a conservationist standpoint, they embark on an automobile trip through some of the wide open spaces of New England and New York State. After casting a clinical eye on about 2000 miles of Northeast nature, they finally come on to Cambridge to spend the better part of the year in the library and the classroom...
...streets of Seoul 20,000 South Koreans gave a new and heartfelt twist to an old Communist slogan. As they watched veterans of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division embark for home, they shouted the rising chant: "Yankee, don't go home!" For the G.I.s, the occasion was a happy one, but disturbed South Koreans hung out banners proclaiming that "withdrawal of U.S. forces invites destruction...
...eight-man team of international experts, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and picked by the School of Public Administration, will probably embark for Pakistan sometime in March in an effort to draw up a much-needed economic program for the state...