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...States that cradle the Persian Gulf, Abu Dhabi is the fourth largest oil producer in the Gulf; this year it expects to earn $70 million in oil revenues, which by 1970 are likely to reach an annual $125 million. Yet under Shakhbout, Abu Dhabi's 20,000 people seldom saw a cent of the riches...
American diplomats in Paris seldom expect to see anything good about the U.S. in Viet Nam on French TV screens these days; often it is not so much the script as it is the commentator's sarcastic tone of voice that plants the barb. In any case, the TV fare does not help the U.S. image in France-or anywhere else for that matter...
...outs ever since Pope Clement XII in 1738 issued the first papal bull condemning the Masons on the ground that their beliefs and rituals amount to a false religion. Catholics are still forbidden to join the Masons under pain of excommunication. For their part, the Masons have seldom been reluctant in the past to condemn the Catholic Church...
...British novelists, though seldom adventurous in form, are insistently complex in content. In The Seahorse (Atheneum) by Anthony Masters, 24, progressive education in England gets a gruesome going-over. Masters' headmaster participates in creative play with his assistant's wife, the kiddies express themselves by plotting blackmail and even murder, and a member of the staff releases inhibitions by decapitating cats. Masters too often manufactures sensations instead of making sense, but he can summon remarkable talents for projecting character and transmitting an atmosphere of educational gothic...
...gave a richly liquored-up performance as a thirsty, unshaven quack. In this ill-starred remake, Bing Crosby plays Mitchell's doctor role with more flippant humor, fewer prickly insights. Bing is good, but otherwise the movie suggests once more that Hollywood's twice-told tales seldom honor the past as much as they plunder...