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...Compendium. Russia's major diplomatic effort of the week was an 8,000-word note to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan signed by spade-bearded Premier Bulganin. Ostensibly an appeal for restoration of friendly relations, the note was a compendium of familiar Russian gambits. In it, Bulganin:¶ Hinted that Russia would welcome a Big Four conference on the reunification of Germany. Expressed new interest in Sir Anthony Eden's Geneva proposal for a demilitarized zone in Central Europe. ¶ Reminded Macmillan that Britain's "comparatively small and densely populated territory" is, by recent British admission, virtually...
...Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade spits out to the girl he loves as he turns her in to the police, sets him forever apart from the race of love-sick weaklings...
...that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Sometimes they even slug law-abiding citizens...
There is no doubting Thomas's skill. No profound intellectual, Dekker still possessed consummate wit, and produced a busty, gusty, lusty farce of great warmth and vigor. Teeming with bawdy doubles ententes, it makes Measure for Measure read like Sunday sermon. And when Dekker doesn't call a spade a spade, he calls it a steamshovel...
...elected delegates to Tunisia's first constituent assembly met in Tunis, less than nine miles from the ruins of once proud Carthage, which boldly challenged ancient Rome for world supremacy. Now, in long subjected Tunisia, a new nation was being born. Opening the inaugural sessions, the spade-bearded, well-tailored old Bey of Tunis gracefully bowed to the new spirit of democracy, dispensed with the traditional custom which once decreed that every Tunisian present should kiss his hand in token of submission...