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...time they huddle around a table like displaced poker players. The cast and chorus nimbly change settings, rotating panels and moving other airily designed scenic props. The dances bear Joe Layton's inventive signature, but excessive leg, arm, and hand signals threaten to turn the chorus into a platoon of animated traffic cops. As director, Layton has used all these devices to generate motion, at best the poor relation of action...
...troops, to his police, to his aides in the African Solidarity Party. But now many of Gizenga's decrees were being ignored. His army chief, General Victor Lundula, had declared his loyalty to the central government regime of Premier Cyrille Adoula in Leopoldville; when Gizenga angrily sent a platoon of Stanleyville police out to arrest Lundula, the cops began bickering among themselves, broke up and returned to their barracks without making the pinch...
John Edwards, 17, had never before played hooky, but "on impulse" one day last week, the senior at Manhasset (N.Y.) High School slipped off with a pal to the U.N. building in Manhattan. There they got in line, bought tickets for a guided tour, and then-pow! A platoon of officials hauled the boys out of line, flashbulbs popped, and Hooky Player Edwards got jarring news: his tour ticket was the 1,000,000th sold this year...
...club has thrown overboard Berrill's dream that it might chart England's future, intellectual democracy has had its compensations. After a long period of stagnancy, membership has boomed tenfold since 1958, so that today there are 2,000 members. In the last year, a small platoon of advance guards have infiltrated this country and have already set up a flourishing chapter in New York, and are organizing a new group in the Boston area...
...guerrillas can be found inside as well as outside the Trung Lap camp. One night, a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into a platoon barracks, killing one Ranger and wounding five. A captured Viet Cong document states matters clearly: "One U.S. instructor dead is worth two Vietnamese majors. One U.S. major is worth two Vietnamese generals...