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...state, "If the silent center in the U.S. can find an effective voice, through the new Citizens Committee . . ." For "silent center" read "senior citizen" apropos of the ages of the founders: Dean Acheson, 74; Omar Bradley, 74; James F. Byrnes, 88; Lucius Clay, 70; James Bryant Conant, 74; Paul Douglas, 75; Dwight Eisenhower, 77; Harry Truman, 83, etc. EVERETT THIELE Baltimore
...that is what happens in an utterly mindless but totally endearing fairy tale, starring Omar Sharif as the prince and Sophia Loren as the girl. It was directed by Francesco Rosi, who is best known for his harrowing bullfight epic, The Moment of Truth. That anybody would bother these days to make so slender and fanciful a film is a miracle in itself; to do it with such a profusion of visual beauty is More than a Miracle. Which, by the way, is its title...
Once upon a time there was a prince with dark, flashing eyes and teeth whiter than white, as handsome as, say, Omar Sharif. He didn't like any of the seven marriageable princesses whom his mother had lined up for him; in fact, he didn't really like much of anything except riding his high-spirited white horse. One day, while cantering across the meadows, his horse threw him and galloped off. When the prince finally caught up with the horse-with the help of a flying monk-it had been appropriated by a peasant girl of such...
...Washington's National Press Club, former Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and General of the Army Omar Bradley announced the formation of a nonpartisan Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Viet Nam. "Voices of dissent have received attention far out of proportion to their actual numbers," the committee said in a 900-word policy statement. "Our objective is to make sure that the majority voice of America is heard-loud and clear-so that Peking and Hanoi will not mistake the strident voices of some dissenters for American discouragement and a weakening of will...
Christian domination over the Holy City ended three centuries later; in A.D. 638, the troops of the Byzantine Emperor surrendered after an onslaught to the Moslem cavalry of the Caliph Omar. In memory of Mohammed's heavenly visit, the victorious Moslems built the Dome of the Rock over the site of the Old Temple. More often than not, they tolerantly allowed Christians and Jews free access to the shrines of the city. In 1095, however, inspired by rumors of Islamic persecution of pilgrims, Pope Urban II proclaimed a holy crusade to reconquer Jerusalem for Christ. Four years later, mail...