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...article were passed from hand to hand. We wish to congratulate you for so truthful an article, and to express to you our gratefulness, for, since we live under an oppressive dictatorship with a controlled one-party press, this article has given us new hope that we are not unknown...
Comfortable Burnooses. While the occupation lasted, living was relatively comfortable. The Franks in Outremer-which the Crusading territory was called -adopted luxuries of the East, e.g., linen bedsheets, running water, which were unknown in their cold castles in Flanders and Normandy. They levied tolls on Arab traders, enjoyed Arab music, ate Arab food, and dressed themselves in turbans and burnooses when off-duty. But the climate was unhealthy for northerners, and men who survived the battlefield often succumbed to strange tropical diseases. Most Crusaders died young...
...sorry he had accepted so many. A few days later he failed to show up for a luncheon date with the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Then, on Armistice Day, he sent Navy Secretary Dan Kimball off to do the presidential honors at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He canceled his regular press conference on the grounds that he had nothing to say, refused to let his press secretary chronicle the arrivals and departures of relatives and in-laws who are swooping down on the White House for an eleventh-hour visit...
...show together, disagrees with the critics. He sees no strong hints of a swing toward more representational art. He culled some 1,500 paintings for the show, had to "lean over backwards to get more realistic painters." Most of those he found were already established artists; of the unknown good enough to exhibit for the first time, 40 out of 43 were abstractionists. Says More: "It's hard to find a young artist under 30 these days who paints in any style other than abstract...
Originally called The Sound Barrier in England,. Breaking Through is described by Director David (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations) Lean as "a modern adventure story." It is also a stunning film flight into the unknown, an imaginatively told movie about the human imagination exploring the whole new realm of the air. Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's screenplay examines both flight and flyers: the stresses & strains, mechanical as well as human, of its theme. A pioneer aviation magnate (played with consummate craft by Ralph Richardson) is dedicated to penetrating the sound barrier. Before his "evil vision" is vindicated...