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...UNVANQUISHED (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). The drama of Masada in the year A.D. 73, when the Jewish defenders of the desert fortress committed suicide be fore their Roman conquerors, is re-created in observance of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights...
This dramatic jigsaw is called The Two Character Play, and it has only two players-a brother and sister named Felice and Clare. He is the manager and leading man and she the leading lady of a dramatic troupe playing an engagement in a fortress-like theater in a grimly foreign, extremely cold town. The pair have just been deserted by the rest of the company with a farewell telegram charging that they are insane. Since the "audience" is already filing into the theater, Felice and Clare have no choice but to put on an item in their repertory called...
Once a military stronghold for maharajahs, the fortress of Mangla in West Pakistan has in recent years commanded nothing more than a sweeping view of a river valley to the southwest and snow-tipped mountains to the north. Last week Pakistan President Ayub Khan came to Mangla to dedicate its new clay and sandstone dam-part of a $2 billion complex that when completed will be the world's largest irrigation network, bringing water to 30 million acres of land and serving the 50 million people who live in the vast Indus River basin...
Many Scarborough students however, are reportedly less enthusiastic. Some have compared it to a "medieval fortress" (the entire complex is self-enclosed with interior streets running between buildings); others, "a power dam or the Maginot Line." Dr. David Abbey, a member of an educational study group connected with the University of Toronto, said in a September speech that student reaction to the structure ranges from "apathy to hostility...
...Pentagon is the most formidable redoubt in official Washington. Squat and solid as a feudal fortress, it hunkers in a remote reclaimed Virginia swamp that used to be called Hell's Bottom, across the Potomac River from the spires, colonnades and domes of the federal city. Through its two tiers of subbasements and five aboveground stories, windowless corridors weave like badger warrens. The bastion of America's military establishment not only houses the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a mint of high brass, but is also a beehive of bureaucracy where some...