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Prime Minister Anthony Eden said that in 33 years in Parliament Attlee had never made a personal enemy. Winston Churchill had once called him "a sheep in sheep's clothing." But the meek exterior could give way to a rasping, if understated, effectiveness, and he had learned the secret of triumphing over more impulsive rivals by quietly out-waiting them...
...Architect Eero Saarinen's new cylindrical chapel for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, June 29, 1953), built of rough-textured brick and separated from the campus by a narrow moat. Meant to harmonize with the nearby brick dormitories, the nondenominational chapel presents a severe mask on its exterior; within, it is a citadel for repose and worship...
More practical still, considering the crowds at past lectures by Toynbee and Stevenson, would be the construction of a moat and drawbridge. Other exterior alterations would include the conversion of the parking lot into a stable, the lawn into a tournament field, and the bell tower into a falcon roost. Gargoyles in abundance would smile upon the entire scene...
Only two characters glimpse the true lovableness beneath his gruff exterior. One is a cunning mongrel dog named Pard; the other, an equally cunning gun moll named Marie (Shelley Winters). Palance finds them in a mountain hideout where he holes up to plan his' next caper -the stickup of the exclusive Tropico Hotel. Shelley keeps mooning at the snowy WarnerColor peaks of the High Sierras and speculating that it must be mighty clean up there. "Cold, too," says Jack, and goes back to laying his plans. Scripter W. R. (This Gun For Hire) Burnett still has about 30 minutes...
That querulous congregation of contention. the French Assembly, gathered last week in a mood as black as the sooty exterior of its Seine-side meeting place. For the third time in three weeks, owlish little Premier Edgar Faure was bobbing and weaving frantically to save his political life...