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Moonlight Flit. Brian Seaton is the elder brother of Saturday Night's hero, Arthur, growing up in industrial Nottingham in the '30s and on the dole...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
...unlike the Laotians, the Vietnamese fight the Communists and fight them well in an unending war that takes 500 lives a month. Recently they have beaten them in seven pitched battles. But the guerrillas flit away into the jungles-or across the border into Laos. President Diem, who was elected to a new five-year term last month, practices dictatorial ways that have held the country together while alienating many Vietnamese. He wants to build up his army from 150,000 to 180,000 men, thinks he will have the guerrillas beaten by 1963. The U.S., more pessimistic, sees nothing...
Well in advance of next spring's summit palaver, who should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself should be festooned with olive branches. To an Air France greeter, Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since...
...West End stage, frolicsome Actress Sarah Churchill buckled down for her mantelshelf solo as the protagonist in a forthcoming production of Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan. At 44, comely Sarah will be one of the oldest of 32 London Peters (among them: Elsa Lanchester, Edna Best) to flit across the Darling's nursery, nonetheless seemed ready to navigate her nearly 600 yds. of flying weekly in the sentimental old wheeze. Sure to be on hand for the opening: her parents. Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, who booked eight seats...