Word: orientale
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Movable Peak. Red China was quick to take advantage of the strained relations between Nepal and India. Last fall Mahendra and Giri traveled to Peking, where they got the full treatment-little flower girls at the airport, a cymbal-and-gong concert, repeated toasts to eternal Chinese-Nepalese friendship. Peking...
The pawns were human when World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik took on the 1957 titleholder, Vassily Smyslov, in a "Peace Fund" benefit match that enthralled 15,000 Muscovites. So were the king, queen, and all the other pieces in the latest Marxist evolution of an ancient Oriental version of chess...
There are some Williams-patented shockers in Iguana, but they are muted in the air of near-Oriental serenity that envelops the play. There is a speech of Widow Faulk's in which she tells of overhearing Shannon's account of how his mother caught him practicing "the...
Played like a play-the action takes place on one set, one quarter of the film was shot in one take-the picture nevertheless never turns stagy, never stops moving as a movie must. Occasionally, a scene is boring, but usually because it intends to suggest the tedium of stagnation...
In an interview with TV's David Brinkley, James B. Donovan, 46, pooh-poohed outcries that he had done the Kremlin a favor by helping engineer the exchange of Spymaster Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. "The only information Abel could communicate to Moscow now," insisted...