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Military men have long complained that Laotian soldiers will not fight. Political scientists have been exasperated by the Laotians' lighthearted attempts to govern themselves and by their queer habit of having two capitals, a political one at Vientiane and a royal one at Luangpra-bang. Last week it was the turn of diplomats to be amazed by the Laotians-and to discover that the two-capital system has some spectacular advantages...
...researching Alfie's abstruse legal quibbles, plump Lila Stuckley, his common-law wife, became a familiar figure in the British Museum's venerable reading room. Said she: "Oh dear. I find it all very difficult. Laws going back to 1742. George II and all that, and that queer language with all those double efs instead of esses." Alfie, to litigation born, delved up enough dusty arguments to sustain a two-year marathon through British courts. His most appealing line: by a convenient "flaw" in British law, prison breaking is nowhere clearly defined as a misdemeanor...
...evoked her husband's memory: "I believe I can best carry out his ideas, his unfinished work and our joint convictions." Asked how she now felt about her charges against John Kennedy, Mrs. Bridges replied: "Perhaps Styles used better words. He used to say 'He has a queer way of dealing with Communists...
...MARK. The sorriest of subjects -the hero is queer for little girls-is investigated with rare skill by Scenarists Sidney Buchman and Stanley Mann. The result is an earnest, valuable and even beautiful film...
...headlines, echoing queer names and remote places, was becoming all too insistent. It told of the United Nations' painful effort to pacify a province called Katanga and unify an emerging nation called Congo. To many it seemed a strange and distant venue to win so much of the world's attention. In a sense, it was; the Congo crisis hardly compared with the peril of war in tense Berlin, nor was it as immediate a danger to peace as the furtive Communist advances in the paddyfields of Southeast Asia. In the U.S. and elsewhere, many would have liked...