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...regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
...raids which ultimately ballooned into the Algerian revolt. Of the nine original moujahids (freedom fighters), three are now dead and five are in French prisons. The only one still at large is Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...
...Carlos Garcia found his softest spot among the hardest hearts of all Washington, i.e., Washington's press corps, when in the week of Sherman Adams' troubles, he offered a timely ad-lib reply to a question at a National Press Club luncheon about why bribetaking and influence peddling were so widespread back home (TIME, April 21). Said Carlos Garcia deadpan: "That [corruption] exists in the Philippines I shall not deny. I do not believe there is any head of government anywhere in the world-this country not excepted-who can stand before you and affirm truthfully that...
Verdict cannot afford star salaries, but many big-name actors ad-lib happily without riches, become convinced of the "truth" that they are relating. Last week Betsy von Furstenberg was on trial for shooting her "husband" on the pretext that she mistook him for a prowler. The prosecuting attorney, in real life Manhattan's Seventh District Assemblyman Daniel Kelly, had built up a damaging case against her. "It all looks very black for us, but wait until I take the stand!" she cried. Verdict's lawyers get just as engaged, lose their tempers in "court," on one occasion...
Oscar discusses his illness, brings his hand to his heart and says: "If I didn't hold it, my heart would fall out." He has a knack for sharp, snide ad-lib remarks on just about anything, including his sponsors: ("Now for the most important, climactic moment of the show-Queen Bee [vitamins], which cures everything, except me"). On Leonard Bernstein: "I don't think as much of him as he does. Lennie has no humor about his egomania. I do." On love: "Because of my attentiveness to other women on the show, my wife told...