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Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein boldly announced: "The crisis in Jordan is ended," relaxed the daytime curfew, and set out to try about 100 "Communists and fellow travelers" under martial law for seeking his overthrow. The U.S. Sixth Fleet wheeled round off Beirut and sailed away for the western Mediterranean, having made its point and enjoyed its shore leave. Eisenhower's Special Ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, after a last visit to Israel headed for home. Left glumly isolated and defeated in the first round, the Egyptian and Syrian press...
...Also the Feringis (Europeans) were bigoted enough to abolish suttee. The rumor spread among Moslems and Hindus that the British were trying to make Christians of them. The greased cartridges hit a bull's-eye of hate, and at Meerut 85 sepoys refused duty. After a suitable court-martial, the older mutineers were shackled on parade to be carted off to the Andaman Islands, 600 miles off the Indian coast. Their comrades revolted, killed all the officers and wives they could find, unshackled the sepoys and, for want of another place to go, marched on Delhi...
...country was in the King's hands-if only by martial law, the consent of the army, the backing of the Bedouins, and the help of party hacks and old politicians...
...Thomas Keefer, male-volent, sarcastic intellectual, shows some signs of having thought about his part, although he tends toward overacting. The same might be said of David Galloway who is quite engaging in his brief appearance as Signalman Urban. William Balchelder as the senior officer of the court martial proceedings has excellent delivery, albeit sepulchral, but no real acting demands are put upon him. Peter Kramer as Lt. Stephan Maryk is insipid, and John Dobbyn as Willie Keith is even more so, both inept and without any sense of development. Ronald Coralian, playing the prosecuter, is, like the rest...
Caine Mutiny Court Martial opened last night at Sanders, presented by the Dudley House Dramatic Society. Performances Friday and Saturday evenings for $1 and $1.50. Agassiz Theatre will again hold the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' production of Patience. A very enjoyable show, seats cost $1.20 and $1.80. The HDC Workshop will present a reading of Thomas Middleton's The Changeling Sunday afternoon at three...