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...outside Bogotá's La Porciuncula Church the troops stormed the church itself as well as student demonstrators. Just as a priest raised the chalice at the altar, two tear-gas bombs exploded. Eyes streaming, the priest turned to the congregation. "A curse on the tyrant!" he thundered. "A curse upon the man who has led the nation to this situation...
...Caine Mutiny Court Martial isn't a bad play as commercial drama goes. Herman Wouk's study of the decay of a loyal petty tyrant, concluding with an elegy for devoted though unenlightened service has considerable vigor. Adapted from the novel, the script assumes much of the background of the novel, and as script leaves something to be desired in development of the characters...
That pudgy face bears an uncanny similarity to another political tyrant who would supposingly benefit the great mass of people -Nikita Khrushchev...
Your March 11 "Nasser-the Other Man" couldn't have been better. Here is an ambitious tyrant whose methods will gain him nothing but perdition. I only wish that more people would see him in the sane light that...
Died. Cecil Elaine Highland, 80, wattled, egg-bald tyrant of Clarksburg, W. Va., who controlled the town for years through his morning Exponent and evening Telegram by imposing a complete news blackout on people, issues and organizations he did not like (TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news...