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...mechanized troops and self-propelled guns that would move quickly to any trouble spot." Israeli armor is on constant alert. About the only time the engines of the 155-mm. and 175-mm. self-propelled gun carriers are turned off is when Soviet spy satellites are about to pass overhead. The engines are shut down eight hours before the pass-overs so that infra-red sensors on the satellites will not pick up motor-engine heat, thereby disclosing Israeli strengths and dispositions...
...that point, just one second showed on the overhead clock...for Brown, it was wait until next year...
...which was rocked by mortar, bazooka and howitzer fire as rebel commandos attacked army and navy installations. One exchange caught a group of 30 Americans, including the local consul, in a social club; they gamely sang John Brown's Body and other traditional songs as tracer bullets arced overhead. A U.S. communications base was hit in another assault. Throughout the week, Ethiopian planes bombed and strafed guerrilla concentrations and mud-hut villages suspected of supporting the rebels. By week's end, according to some accounts, as many as 2,000 people had been killed...
...known theatrical devices: he uses a chorus (as well as the excellent original score of Hanns Eisler) and stages the scene of Galileo's anticipated recantation in stark relief - huge shadows against a white screen dwarfing the fore ground figures. He also begins the whole production with an overhead shot of the film sound stage. Since Brecht's ideas were intended to breach and defy the proscenium rather than challenge the camera, this last device looks a little out of place...
...plane, Dean discussed his unique Watergate experience with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey. Although the prison barracks at Fort Holabird are comfortable, and prisoners there can play tennis and cook their own meals, Dean found confinement psychologically destructive. "With professional criminals," he said, "incarceration is part of the overhead of doing business. They can cope." But he felt "helpless" in prison. "There's an unbelievable strain if you are independent by nature. Your wife must take care of all family problems, including your own. Your emotions become more sensitive. It's not self-pity...