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...apiece and are not to be treated casually. Yet in an age when an intercontinental thermonuclear strike order could be received at any moment, a key warrior breed will be the missileer, whose fighting environment, neither sea nor sky nor foxhole, will be a concrete blockhouse or an underground fortress. His ties to the world outside will be electric wires. TV screens, knobs, dials, microphones, buttons and bulbs. He will be the man who presses the button...
...commitments. Unhappily, despite the raspingly effective performance of George C. Scott as Shylock and a smoothly urbane Portia by Nan Martin, the production was not up to the usual Papp standard. But 200 critics and 100,000 rabbis could not shake Joe Papp out of his fortress now. His new amphitheater is handsomely set in a rocky grotto at the edge of a lake, and equipped with a mobile stage that can swiftly and silently be changed to suggest anything from a closeted interior to "another part of the forest." It is above all solidly and massively there. New Yorkers...
Plain Jewel Casket. Placed almost directly in the center of bustling, industrial Coventry, the new cathedral makes no attempt at a dramatic façade. Its massive pink brick walls form a squat, solid fortress; its only spire is a relatively small, openwork metal fleche, topped by a painfully distorted cross (the building's detractors call it Radio Coventry). The long, saw-toothed east wall that runs along Coventry's crowded Priory Street is undecorated except for Sir Jacob Epstein's imposing four-ton figure of St. Michael staring down in triumph and compassion at the chained...
...Highway Commissioner Marshall Formby, 50, is a conservative, PRESIDENT-GENERAL DUNCAN Young, but not quite new. but he seems to be a blazing liberal compared to the sixth man in the race: former Army Major General Edwin A. Walker, 52, who vows that he will turn Texas into a fortress against the onslaught of domestic Communism...
Ailleret raced to Le Rocher Noir, the coastal fortress that houses the French and Provisional Algerian administrations, confirmed Salan's capture to newly appointed High Commissioner Christian Fouchet. As Fouchet called Charles de Gaulle to break the news, a military transport roared off the Reghaia's airstrip, taking the old soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General...