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...army to throw roadblocks around the town. At Nablus, they potshot at po lice from barricades and upstairs win dows. In the Arab sector of Jerusalem, thousands poured through the streets, ripping down pictures of the King and shouting anti-Hussein slogans before Hussein's elite Arab Legion fired into the crowd from the walls around the Damascus gate. Riots dragged on for two days in nearby Ramallah, where the legion also had to fire on demonstrators to disperse them. Far to the north at Irbid, rocks, bottles and truncheons flew like bullets. Hundreds were arrested, scores were injured...
...many), Georgy Girl will probably draw large crowds. Every girl whose mother has ever assured her that she is a "late bloomer" will love the movie, and delight in seeing a girl with no waist and no style marry well. Fortunately for Georgy Girl's distributors, our numbers are legion...
...golden period with all its paradoxes is displayed in "The Age of Rembrandt," a traveling show of 107 paintings by 67 Dutch masters that broke all attendance records at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. The exhibition opens this week in the Toledo Museum of Art and eventually goes on to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. It has nine Rembrandts, including Norton Simon's Titus. Even against such competition, the seven Halses emerge as the hit of the show...
...year later he was named a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. During World War II, he was a major in the Medical Corps and was chief of neuropsychiatric service at the Newton D. Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg, W. Va. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service...
Mayer's approach to HDC matters was a blend of fast talking and friends in high places. He made no attempt to hide personal likes and dislikes, which were legion. But he was always intelligent, almost always logical, and all to frequently right. Mayer might have been outclassed in the world of politics, but as a politician in the world of theatre, he was without peer...