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...guerrilla goal has been to cut Rhodesia's rail and road links with South Africa-vital conduits for the fuel and ammunition that Salisbury needs. To assess the threat, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs accompanied one of the twice-daily convoys that travel along Route A-4 from Fort Victoria to Beitbridge on the South African border. His report...
...with a death toll of 181 guerrillas, 20 security-force soldiers, twelve white and 88 black civilians. At a dozen points along the border, Mozambique-based guerrillas fired rockets and mortars at white settlements inside Rhodesia. From Zambian bases, other guerrillas attacked a motel in the tourist center of Victoria Falls, killing one white guest and wounding two others. In retaliation for the accelerated insurgency, Rhodesian security forces supported by helicopters, armored vehicles and aging bombers swept at least 50 miles into Mozambique to strike at guerrilla camps; it is believed that at least 500 blacks were killed...
Despite her tendency to glower, Queen Victoria was not by any means a "puritanical old she-dragon breathing fire and brimstone." Or so says Prince Charles, 27, defending his great-great-great-grandmum in next month's issue of the British literary magazine Books and Bookmen. The heir apparent claims that Victoria was greatly misunderstood because of her famous judgment: "We are not amused." Actually, she was a "charming character" who "adored" a good laugh, says the prince. He cites, for example, an encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria...
...PRODUCTION of this play which features a Gwendolen who's tougher than her august Aunt Augusta. But if Clapp's ingenue is enough to make a young man's blood run cold, Victoria Allan's Lady Bracknell is strikingly unintimidating. Hers is the best character part in a play filled with nothing but. As the grim dowager symbol of the aristocracy in rout, Allan actually manages to be boring; she plays on the same emotional level throughout, scarcely varying her slow delivery, never rising to farcical peaks of anger or ridiculousness...
Rowland Emett has had more than trivial genetic lift. His grandfather was Queen Victoria's court engraver, his father an amateur inventor. Emett himself has put wires together and lines on paper since early childhood. At 13 he devised a novel gramophone windup mechanism-just as gramophones succumbed to electricity. Undeterred, he became a stellar and sometimes lunar cartoonist. During World War II, some equally dotty boffin at the Air Ministry decided from Emett's complicated cartoons that the artist-a man as mild as Lewis Carroll's Dormouse-should be commandeered to help build nongentle-manly...