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...than sending teams of paratroopers equipped with walkie-talkies to keep Imbert's units from firing by mistake into U.S. positions. As they had all along, U.S. paratroopers manning the corridor checkpoints searched every Dominican male for guns before letting him pass. The G.I.s were ordered not to trap the rebels north of the corridor, as Imbert's forces squeezed them up against the line. "We are not going to repulse them," said U.S. Commander Lieut. General Bruce Palmer. "But we won't let them through with their weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: All the King's Men | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...sacrifice bunt moved them to second and third. When O'Donnell grounded sharply to Fazen at second base, Houston tried to score and was thrown out by a step. Dan Hootstein then stroked a rising line drive to ward right field, but Fasen west high in the air to trap it and end the inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Shuts Out Crimson Batters | 5/10/1965 | See Source »

...dims the light whenever a stray animal is electrocuted. A family is hiding here from an unspecified "it" that is "moving west." Mother Eileen Heckart mangles French and Italian phrases and listens raptly to off-key recordings of her opera-diva days. She is a Venus's-fly-trap who has devoured "Fa" (he is too contemptible to deserve the other syllable) and dragooned Daughter Lakme (Susan Anspach) and Son Sigfrid (Robert Drivas) into performing strange little rituals like strewing the air with paper petals and striking heraldic poses with Wagnerian swords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Juvenilia in a Fright Wig | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...fact, the best of Mime I is anything but funny. Weisman's adaptation of Marceau's skit "The Cage" is a lovingly prepared allegory on the prisoner of modern society, trapped by the invisible shield of Gardol. Weisman's flappy figure strolls out in a relaxed gait and walks right into a contracting glass cage. He escapes, by breaking the wall, but ignorantly stumbles back into the trap, and to destruction...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: Mime I | 5/3/1965 | See Source »

...blow of losing was a bit softer for fifth man John Hawkins. He hit the shot of the day, a wedge out of the trap on the both that obligingly rolled into the cup feet away. Unfortunately, that gave only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Squeeze Past Brown, 4-3; 'Top Seeds' Win | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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