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...eggs, painted anti-Malaysia slogans all over the walls. As government police stood idly by, the enraged mob then turned its fury on the British embassy in nearby Friendship Square. They ripped down sections of the iron fence around the building and shattered its modernistic glass facade under a hail of stones. The rioters tore the Union Jack from its flagpole and set fire to Ambassador Andrew Gilchrist's Rolls-Royce...
...pals, from Hail Fellow Toots Shor to Toyman Louis Marx, went flying across the Pacific for the misty-eyed moment in Hawaii. There, at Hickam Field, U.S.A.F. Gen. Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 56, leader of the first B-29 raid on Tokyo in 1944, was mustered out after 35 years of service. In the White House Rose Garden, with parallel pomp, U.S.N. Admiral George Anderson Jr., 56, the Chief of Naval Operations who planned and ran the Cuba blockade and then was replaced by President Kennedy, got a gold star (in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal...
...sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...
...government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. As Americans, we find Communism profoundly repugnant as a negation of personal freedom and dignity. But we can still hail the Russian people for their many achievements-in science and space, in economic and industrial growth, in culture, in acts of courage...
...unusually appealing permutation of standard war-story elements. Permutation is the appropriate word here, because this Italian film has no new novelties to offer. It gives a straight forward account of civilian resistance to a German occupation after Badoglio's surrender in September, 1943. The citizens of Naples hail the armistice, then discover that Hitler intends to defend Italy and treat his former allies as a conquered people. When the Wehrmacht starts rounding up men for labor crews in Germany, Naples rebells. Four days later the harassed Germans release hostages and abandon the city...