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Both the talk and the war monument were premature. The Communist-led rebels still held most of north central Laos, and the road into their lair was studded with land mines, freshly imported from Red China. Though Boun Oum's generals predicted all-out victory "within a week," most foreign observers on the scene predicted a negotiated truce. Late last week King Savang Vatthana, an easygoing monarch who prefers to remain above politics, reluctantly left his palm-fringed home town of Luangprabang, flew to Vientiane to convene his council of ministers. Purpose: to see if he could devise some...
...about the bestselling (4,000,000 copies to date) novel inspired by his 1947 heroics. "Israelis," he said, "were pretty disappointed in the book, to put it lightly. The types that are described in it never existed in Israel. The novel is neither history nor literature." From his literary lair in Encino, Calif., Exodus Author Leon Uris rebutted: "You may quote me as saying, 'Captain who?' and that's all I have to say. I'm not going to pick on a lightweight. Just look at my sales figures...
...into place, but also overestimates the amount of new humor that can be choked from the old contest between a scatterbrained actress and her no-nonsense sister. In last week's episode, Eileen (played by Shirley Bonne) caused Sister Ruth (Elaine Stritch) sleepless nights when she invaded the lair of a panting Broadway producer. One genuinely amusing touch: in a nightmare, Big Sister visualizes the producer's office furnished entirely with couches, and flies to the rescue as Super-Ruth. Although too much depended on the belief, no longer universally entertained, that show biz holds that much peril...
...Shakespeare wishes he'd never added the subtitie "or, What You Will" to this play. At any rate, London has turned Tweifth Night into a comedy of errors. Imagine, if you can, a neoionic tempietto on stage right, with a hideous stained-glass dome (this is Orsino's lair; no wonder he says. "The appetite may sicken, and so die."); and, on the left, a two-story pavilion with Victorian gimcrackery and shades that are raised and lowered with annoying frequency (Olivia's summer resort, and last resort). In the center we have a candy-cane flagpole with pennon...
...House of Intellect. When she first met Jean-Paul Sartre, he was a fellow student at the Sorbonne. "Except when he's asleep. Sartre thinks all the time!" a friend told Simone. Petrified, she entered Sartre's lair for a day-long talkathon on her metaphysical treatise. The Concept in Leibnitz. Simone confided to her diary, "He's a marvelous trainer of intellects." Before long, they were playing pinball machines together, going to un-adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River...