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...Rififi scenario was replayed, more for laughs than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick...
...Harry carries the rank of "Cornet," equivalent to a 2nd Lieutenant, and will command a troop of 12 men in four Scimitar armored reconnaissance vehicles, each with a crew of three. The Ministry of Defense said that "the decision to deploy him had been a military one, made by the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, in conjunction with Cornet Wales' commanding officer," adding that "the Royal Household has been consulted throughout...
...counterattack, Ethiopian soldiers took only five prisoners. They did not understand the Italian arms-up attitude of surrender, Mockler reports, and simply found an enemy thus exposed an even more convenient target for rifle or scimitar. The invaders retaliated with mustard gas, dropped by plane. The war was won from the air. Seven months after the invasion, Ethiopia was defeated, annexed, and soon turned into a rigid Fascist colony...
CAIRO, Egypt—Cairo has not met my wildest imaginations. My “Erol of Arabia” dreams of racing across the desert on a black Arabian horse, scimitar in hand, screaming, wearing a kafiyya, then arriving in Cairo, making a cameo at a local protest, with bullhorn in my other hand, burning a few flags and finally sheesha-smoking the night away has not been realized. Instead, I unglamorously touched down in an airplane, took a cab to my bare hostel room and have spent most nights studying Arabic. I have not been on a horse...
...style of administration and his humane application of justice to both war and governance influenced Arab rulers for centuries. His tolerance was exemplary. He allowed Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem after its fall. The great Jewish sage Maimonides was his physician. Woven into chivalric legend as the worthy foeman, Saladin, scimitar flashing or compassionately sheathed, galloped from Dante into romances by Sir Walter Scott and eventually into young adult books that still ship in 24 hours through Amazon.com...