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FRENCH CAMEROONS Jungle Terror Six months after the French gave internal autonomy to the French Cameroons, a California-sized land of steaming coastal plains, rain-sodden jungles and high savanna just above the equator on Africa's West Coast, native Premier André-Marie M'bida finds himself confronted with a reign of terror spearheaded by 5,000 hard-core Communist guerrillas-Led by a Prague-trained Communist named Ruben Um Myobe, first secretary of the Red-front Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons (UPC), the terrorists burst out of the jungles, burn grass huts, shanghai thousands...
Only Mother. Testimony was bitterly sordid on both sides. Joanne called her husband a "drug-sodden wife beater" who so abused her that she "lay down to die." Patiño in turn denounced her as an adulterous, "worthless" woman who "did everything for money," described her excessive drug-taking, demanded that she return his gifts of jewelry. With Mother on hand, Joanne holed up in a lush but lonely ten-room villa in Switzerland's Jura Mountains and waited for her attorneys to wring a financial settlement from Pati...
...hero, shiftless, sodden Painter Earl worked for the British until the patriots began to win, then deserted his wife and two children and fled to England, where he subsequently deserted another wife and more children to return to America and drink himself to death...
...after a performance, politely wondered aloud if Osborne might have a part for him in any new play. Very much in character, Osborne superciliously replied: "I don't know-possibly." Then he began remixing a batch of anger in process called The Entertainer so that its lead-a sodden, cynical, third-rate music-hall trouper-would fit Sir Laurence. Last month, having just chucked a reported $250,000 by bowing out of a Hollywood film version of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables, Olivier startled Britain's effete theater world by accepting the Osborne role. In a small...
Having just had a fire ourselves, we looked around for our hair-shirt to throw in the sodden mess, and found that we had indeed been suffering barely discernable pricks of conscience. Having disposed of these, we find ourselves much more tolerant of the world. Indeed, we feel slightly euphoric...