Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the mind's eye must do some of the listener's work, the sensation of being imprisoned in a limbo of mad souls is fearsomely convincing. Patrick Magee as Sade, Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday, Ian Richardson as Marat, and the disciplined ensemble players of the Royal Shakespeare Company are, in this recording, precisely what they have been onstage-perfect...
Elsewhere, other elements of Operation Abilene fared better. As the operation concluded at week's end, units of the Big Red One, the Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province...
More Subtle, Less Scrutable. Go is commonly described as an Oriental cross between checkers and chess. In fact, the only thing the three games have in common is that all are played on boards divided into squares. Checkers is a battle royal that ends when one opponent sweeps his adversary off the board; in Go, each player is given 180 pieces, or stones-enough so that he can never run out. In chess, the pieces vary in power according to a rigid hierarchy of values reflecting the medieval world...
Amnesty operates on a shoestring $50,000-a-year budget in a dingy fifth-floor office in London's Crane Court, where Sir Isaac Newton presided over the Royal Society. Benenson, assisted by a staff of eight full-time workers, farms out individual prisoners to Amnesty's 430 volunteer groups in 20 countries. Last week he was in the U.S. to drum up support for the 21st group, which has just been set up in Manhattan. Local chapters use every imaginable publicity weapon to dramatize the cases of their "adopted prisoners" -letters to newspapers, fund-raising campaign parties...
...statistics. At 76, Survivor Chapman is one of a dwindling group of 150 old comrades who share his memories. He is a historian (at the Universities of Leeds and Pittsburgh), but his academic work contains nothing so grim and memorable as this memoir of his battalion of the Royal Fusiliers...