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Quentin Durward (M-G-M). "Durward," says the Scottish envoy (Moultrie Kelsall) at the court of Burgundy one silver morn in the summer of 1465, "you are a handsome, proud, gallant, honorable and slightly obsolete figure." At these words Robert Taylor recoils. It is startling enough for a 44-year-old matinee idol to hear himself described like an overage destroyer; but to be addressed in literate and amusing English smack-dab in the middle of a Hollywood thud-and-blunder opus is a shock almost as sharp as seeing Sir Walter Scott in the old Stut...
...stop talking about war. Said Allen: "The thing to do is to get things going the other way. A trend in the other direction might possibly be started by agreement on the division of the waters of the Jordan River." By nice coincidence, President Eisenhower's special envoy Eric Johnston arrived in Cairo at week's end for showdown talks with Arab leaders on the U.S.-sponsored Jordan Valley development plan, which would provide irrigable land for the resettlement of up to 200,000 refugee Arabs...
Shigenobu Shima, Minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of Japan to the United States, presented the Order of the Sacred Treasure to Mrs. Warner. The award was conferred by the Emperor of Japan...
...Communist cause. Then there was Nicholas Beloyannis, an old comrade-in-arms who was also captured and shot (some of the boys began to wonder whether Beloyannis had been honored with the mission because he had flirted too openly with Roula). In 1953, Niko sent Harilaos Florakis as his envoy. He was captured and sent to jail for life...
Hatoyama responded by inviting Magsaysay's envoy to a Tokyo bargaining table. But it soon became clear that the Japanese, fearful of their precarious foreign trade position, meant to drive a hard bargain: a large award to the Philippines might set off a chain reaction of higher demands from other victims of Japanese expansion, e.g., Thailand, Indonesia...