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...modern American audience. Joan Dark (Jeanne d'Arc), the girl who stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group called "The Black Straw Hats." She tries to soften Mauler's heart toward the workers' plight, while he tries to harden her mind toward the workers' wickedness. In the end, starved and dying, she proclaims that only violence will improve the world...
...funeral of Morocco's King Mohammed V (see above) and to meet with new King Hassan II and the provisional Premier of the F.L.N., Ferhat Abbas. After a late dinner, the three talked until hours past midnight. With the young King's help, Bourguiba tried to soften the rigid and suspicious posture of the F.L.N. and assure them of De Gaulle's good faith...
...area of agreement was limited to Algeria and the Congo. Houphouet-Boigny swore the delegates to secrecy until he could fly off to Paris to press the results on his good friend Charles de Gaulle. But the gist of the policy leaked. Houphouet-Boigny will urge De Gaulle to soften his terms for an Algerian ceasefire. In the U.N. the eleven states will doubtless oppose any condemnation of France on Algeria, but will support a U.N.-supervised referendum to determine Algeria's future. De Gaulle has rejected the U.N. referendum in the past, but even he should recognize that...
...Soften yeast in water. Combine softened yeast in mixing bowl with cottage cheese, sugar, onion, butter, dill seed, salt, soda and egg. Add flour gradually to form a stiff dough, pausing to beat well after each addition. Cover and let rise for 50 to 60 minutes in warm place (85° to 90°) until dough is light and doubled in size. Stir down dough. Turn into well-greased 8-in. round casserole of 1½ or 2-qt. capacity. Let rise for 30 to 40 minutes in warm place until light...
...defense, there is nothing illusory about Schloredt. "There's an art to being aggressive," he says. "The idea is that if you can soften up the other guy, he'll be thinking about you. Take a big end. If his passes are good, he'll outreach you and pull them in. And if you just tackle him around the shoetops, he'll fall down, all right. But that's not good enough. You've got to tackle him so he thinks your helmet is going to tear right through him. Next time he comes...