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...explained: "For looking more like my caricatures than I thought you did." In Vicky's gallery, Khrushchev looks like a Charles Addams rendering of a prizefighter; Lord Beaverbrook, empire-building publisher of the Mirror's opposition Daily Express, is a big-mouthed dwarf in crusader's armor; Churchill is a cigar-waving Dickensian comic...
Last week armor-plated Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson stopped the Army's arguments cold, handed down an eight-page memorandum that was the clearest contribution to a definition of service roles and missions since the battered and bruised Key West agreement...
...night long the city held its breath, while a few bursts of firing and the rumble of armor were heard. At daybreak a Hungarian sighed with relief: 'They did not shoot up the town again...
Star of the evening was Baritone Warren. He had a few bad moments when the audience first glimpsed his toadstool-shaped black armor and snickered. But he came through, as always, with sane, reliable singing in a beautiful voice. Bronx-born Baritone Warren spent a year and a half learning his part, and if he seemed just a bit boring as Charles V, it was probably because he understood the boring role so well...
...first night of operations," Ben-Gurion told the Knesset, "we took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command car from hotspot to hotspot, promptly took charge. "Our infantry was inching along taking casualties under heavy artillery fire," he said later. "About 1 p.m. I told the commander...