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...setting for most of leading lady Brigitte Bardot's amateur detectivisms is a rattle-trap French dance hall run by a blackmailer, who unknown to Miss Bardot has got the drop on her husband. The husband, played by Henri Vidal, has just stormed into the establishment to try to get himself off the hook, when the black-mailer-owner is murdered. The inevitable "innocent bystandars," none of whom, as Miss Bardot later discovers in her quest for information on the crime, are particularly innocent, witness Vidal's entrance, call the police, and set off the fireworks...
...Sympathy. Such detailed planning was unknown as recently as 1952. Despite Truman's budget invitation, his relations with Eisenhower were cold, and the old problem of "communications" between administrations was not solved. Still, the days have long passed when the outgoing President merely invited his successor in for a quiet White House tea on inauguration eve. That ritual ended in 1933, when F.D.R., calling at the White House, roiled Hoover's feelings by suggesting that the President would probably be too busy to return the call. Snapped Hoover: "Mr. Roosevelt, you'll learn pretty soon that...
Shortly after the riots, Greek Orthodox Patriarch-Athenagoras had protested to Menderes that the violence seemed to be concerted and guided "by an unknown hand." On the witness stand, the patriarch admitted that he had no specific knowledge to back up his charge; he had gotten his information second hand. But two hours before the riots broke out, said Athenagoras, he had received a phone call from the governor of Istanbul, now one of the defendants, informing him, "There may be some demonstrations over Cyprus. But don't worry...
...unknown quantity of Czech truck-mounted tactical rockets for field troops...
Although most of America's expatriate singers are unknown at home, many of them have built up sizable European reputations. New York-born Claire Watson, 33, was one of the hits of last summer's Munich Festival, where she appeared as the Marschallin in Rosenkavalier and Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte. Brooklyn's Evelyn Lear, 31, of West Berlin's State Opera created a sensation at the Vienna Festival in Alban Berg's Lulu. Her Texas-born husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart, 31, was a surprise success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal...