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A guy can get hungry whirlybirding around South Viet Nam, and Bobby and Ethel Kennedy have all those kids of their own, and-well, it was worth a try, anyway. So Army Specialists 4/C Michael Garrity and Thomas Mooney sent a wistful note to the Senator: "Can Ethel make cookies...
His statement made it clear that De Gaulle was not about to apologize to his Canadian hosts or even appear contrite for the clamor he raised with his call for a Quebec libre. Well aware that his new statement would only keep the hassle alive, he said with a kind...
Wistful Pride. France had founded Canada, said De Gaulle, and "alone for 21 centuries had administered, populated and developed" the country. After the English conquest came "a century of oppression." Now, in the second century of British rule, the French Canadian minority "still has not been assured in their own...
Sacred as it was to Judaism, Jerusalem also attracted pagan conquerors. In 586 B.C., the city and its Temple were destroyed by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, who marched most of its inhabitants off to captivity -a tragedy that inspired the Psalmist to some of his most wistful lamentations. Thanks to...
MELINA MERCOURI: ILLYA DARLING (United Artists). The best thing about the current Broadway musical is Melina, and not surprisingly she is the best thing about this musical distillation of it, delivering five of the songs written by Manos Hadjidakis with lyrics by Joe Darion. Amidst the jingly rhythms of the...