Word: favored
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This double-bill of Sartre and Williams marks the advent of a new Boston "off-Broadway" repertory theatre. Judging by the first production, the group seems destined to be more long-lived than its red-inked fore-bearers. The major point in its favor is that this is a fairly limited venture with a small staff and a converted attic successfully adapted into a small theatre in the "square," seating about 140 people on both sides of an unelevated floor space...
...territorial assemblies, but requires that each assembly share its powers with appointive "Councils of Communities," whose members will be named by a French governor on the basis of a fifty-fifty split between French and Moslems. A new electoral law abolished the old system, which weighted voting in favor of "non-Moslems" (French), and replaced it with universal suffrage. This was qualified by a system of proportional representation that would assure Frenchmen of some seats even in areas where their vote is very small. After two years, an all-Algerian Assembly with power over all but defense and diplomatic matters...
...black-turbaned, khaki-uniformed irregulars swept into Sidi Ifni itself, a small (pop. 10,000) fishing town of unpaved streets. They slaughtered a score of sleeping Spanish sentries and made off with some trucks and mules. The Spanish, who last month jailed a few local Moslems for demonstrating in favor of King Mohammed, had quietly reinforced the Ifni garrison with several hundred paratroopers and Foreign Legionnaires. Shouting their battle cry of "Long Live Death," the Legionnaires led a counterattack into the hills that drove most of the invaders back across the frontier and cost them an estimated 100 dead...
When it looks as if a potential enemy has developed quick, automatic devices for breaking a radar's code, more complicated electronic codes must be devised. Some missiles have abandoned radar in favor of heat-sensitive eyes that guide them to the hot tail pipes of an enemy airplane. One answer to this dodge is to release decoys with powerful flares to attract the missile...
What effect the bootleg publication of his novel will have on Author Pasternak, 67, is questionable. Probably he will survive; he has been out of favor before (in 1946 for bourgeois tendencies), presumably knows how to bow to "human authority" as well as his colleague, Novelist Dudintsev. When asked at a recent diplomatic cocktail party what would become of irksome Author Dudintsev, Dictator Nikita Khrushchev replied blandly: "I intend to see him. He will continue to write, but there will be nothing for which world capitalists will sing his praises...