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...that he had done so, would the F.L.N. seize the moment to enter negotiations accepting self-determination for Algeria? Unfortunately, the F.L.N.'s political imagination seems no equal to its guerrilla audacity. The F.L.N. apparently regarded the settlers' insurrection as a hopeful indication that another settlers' flare-up might cause the total collapse of French rule in Algeria...
...flood of oil pours into the silvered storage tanks of foreign oil companies, including the world's largest petroleum producer, Standard-controlled Creole Petroleum Corp. Hard-hatted workmen spin the valves that channel the flood to docks where tankers simmer in the sun and to refineries where wastes flare in smoky orange flames...
...this: I may have, but I am not saying I didn't, but I don't believe I have. I do say this ..."), he has been vastly successful in making himself understood. His warm grin is known around the earth, but in private his temper can flare with crackling, barracks-room fluency. He seems boundlessly friendly and outgiving, but White House insiders have long since grown used to having him pass in the halls without a nod or a word. He has seen and been seen by more crowds than any other man of his time, but in fact...
...Galway. What Anne Bancroft nightly brings to Annie Sullivan, besides sheer physical stamina, is an extraordinary talent for observation, an ear and an eye for the small, significant detail that transforms mimicry into understanding. So the coarse, curbside intonations of The Bronx were erased with intuitive skill at the flare of a footlight and the rise of a curtain. Seesaw's Gittel spoke with an inflection that convinced thousands of theatergoers that the actress must be Jewish ("I didn't even know what a Jew was until I was grown up," says Anne Bancroft). As Annie Sullivan, Actress...
...father seems a symbol, and eager for a friendly English home. Discerning about the neurotic Harringtons, he-who has known real horror-tries to prevent the needless horror the family is inflicting on itself. But in sounding the alarm bell, he feeds the fire, and soon accusations and recriminations flare up everywhere...