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...American in Damascus was worried about the prestige of his country. Here the Russians had spent half a million dollars building the biggest pavilion at the Damascus Fair, while the U.S. Government had refused to let him spend even $15,000. Harris Peel, the USIS chief in Damascus, cast about for "something that would steal the show" yet cost nothing. His solution: Cinerama, which had never before been shown outside...
...weeks, two more foolish monkeys were caught-one by following strategically placed bits of orange peel straight into the mouth of a zoo keeper's sack-but the three remaining holdouts had grown shrewder than ever. In the end, it was only the perversity of fate and their common simianity that brought them down. One day last week, unused to the perils that abound in freedom, one of the monkeys was hit by a passing automobile. As he lay in the road, stunned but unhurt, a lurking keeper took him captive...
About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount). Shirley Booth, with her gilded Oscar (Best Actress of 1952, for her work in Come Back, Little Sheba) scarce beginning to peel, has already laid aside her dignity and gone for a summer's dunk in a tub of sentimental lather. For this film, based on a Vina Delmar novel, is pure soap opera, and it is the kind of suds that leaves a sticky ring around the mind. Shirley plays a part that is wallowingly reminiscent of John's Other Wife...
...British royal commission investigating the struggle between Arab and Israeli 17 years ago arrived at a tragic conclusion. "Fundamentally," said the Peel Report of 1937, "it is a conflict of right with right." Last week-one world war and one local war later-the judgment was still valid. The Jews were right, because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine, where 1,670,000 today carve out their earthly Zion, became the cradle of their culture and religion. The Arabs were right, because for more than 1,000 years the land had been theirs...
...classic insanity defense under the no-year-old M'Naghten Rules, named for a Scot who in 1843 tried to kill British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, and killed Sir Robert's secretary by mistake. The defense pleaded that M'Naghten was under the delusion that he had a grievance against Sir Robert. M'Naghten was found insane, and acquitted. Shortly afterwards, the famous Rules were formulated; they provide that "every man is presumed sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes": to prove otherwise, it must be shown...