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...masses. But in the looking-glass world behind the Wall, the Communists had a different version; they made it sound as though the West Germans had fouled up the show. Walter Ulbricht told a collective-farm fair near Leipzig that debates could not take place under the "Damocles sword" of the special safe-conduct law that was enacted-in response to Ulbricht's own requests-by the West German Parliament two weeks ago in order to permit Communist speakers to attend the second debate in West Germany without fear of arrest. Ulbricht's theme was amplified...
...hilarious effect. This stick, by the way, is his chief prop -- a little too short, and comically bent. It looks all the funnier when juxtaposed with the long straight staff carried by the prim and proper Chief Justice (Alexander Clark). When Kilty tries to use his stick as a sword, the result is worthy of W.C. Fields' famous attempt to play pool with a crooked...
...political events superseded military victory. The same international pressures that ultimately led to the fall of Anthony Eden's government forced the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Nevertheless, Dayan and his fellow Israelis believe that the Sinai escapade convinced Nasser of the "readiness of Israel to take to the sword to secure her rights, and the capacity of her army to defeat" a numerically superior and better armed enemy...
...depths of a delightfully quirky human comedy. Instead they try too often for ding-dong farce, calling on a corps of hard-sell comedians to transform the townfolk into strident cartoons. Jonathan Winters as an addled police officer, Ben Blue as an irrelevant drunk, and Paul Ford as a sword-swinging Legionnaire are the chief offenders, since their familiar broad comedy bits beget feeble satire of Birchite fear and hysteria. This seasonable breach of security is well worth the risks, though, and an obligatory nod to young love turns out surprisingly well, mostly because John Phillip Law, as a tense...
Upthink all the way was the intended theme as the Democratic National Committee and members of the Cam paign Conference for Democratic Women converged on Washington last week for their pre-election rah-rah session. Unsurpassed prosperity and the unmatched legislative record of the 89th Congress seemed the ideal sword and buckler for the combat ahead. "Go forth," enjoined Hubert Humphrey, "with almost a crusading zeal to talk about not only what we've done, but how we've done...