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...state guesthouse in a long cortege of limousines through streets dark and deserted except for the squads of soldiers guarding intersections. Early next morning, the Ilyushin flew over the mist-shrouded mountains of northern Laos to a grassy landing strip on the Plaine des Jarres, an 800 sq. mi. plateau, so named because it is dotted by ancient, granite burial jars weighing up to 100 tons...
Buckets of Bugs. Tribesmen corralled 305 trained hunting elephants, and Nepalese troops cleared a campsite in the dense Meghavli jungle. To get rid of insects and snakes, they stripped six inches of soil off a 2-sq.-mi. area, replaced it with soft turf and a specially constructed water sprinkling system. Buckets of bugs were carried away, and the entire site was sprayed with DDT. Into the Queen's two-bedroom tent went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill...
...Mi. Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker are wonderful, the rest of the proceedings dreary...
...best of the home-grown dramas include the tender, poetic family chronicle, All the Way Home, and Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama. As for the musicals: although it is currently fashionable to dismiss it, Camelot holds many treasures that make it worth seeing; Do Re Mi survives only through the shenanigans of Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. Which leaves two of the year's least pretentious works but also its zingiest -Carol Channing's satirical revue, Show Girl, and An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine...
...Home; Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama; and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively but somehow disappointing comedy-lecture on marital success. Among the musicals: although it is currently fashionable to dismiss it, Camelot holds many treasures that make it worth seeing; Do Re Mi, a Runyonesque piece, is nearly salvaged by the antics of Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. And two of the season's smallest-scale efforts are also its sprightliest-Carol Channing's satirical revue, Show Girl, and An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine...