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...drama was drowned by the farce, what turned out was, still, highly entertaining and colorful. The stage was fully used for magnificent and flourishing movement while the costumes and set added a fine array of color. Carol Lee Dixon's setting in the style of Mies van der Rohe offered tremendous variety in its simple starkness. Quite frank and open, it consisted simply of a scaffold structure with spotlights and a variety of drapery appended. The lighting, by Allen Klein, was certainly dramatic enough but often failed to adequately illuminate the actors. Harriet Kaufman Levi's costumes, however, are without...
First to make the charge was Colonel Jean Gardes, 46, formerly France's top psychological warrior in Algiers. Gardes, who took the stand in full uniform, wearing white gloves and an array of 24 medals and citations collected in World War II and the Indo-China war, had volunteered for duty in Algeria, believing that "there we lead the last struggle of free men." Soon after his arrival in Algiers, said Gardes, General Maurice Challe, De Gaulle's own appointee as commander in chief in Algeria, had assured him that the army was firmly behind a French Algeria...
...there are certain characteristics common to each succeeding story. These essential ingredients are, in random order: the daring under-world leader, known to one and all as a "real friend," his faithful but careless partner who consorts with loose-tongued women, a rival gang that never plays fair, an array of luscious showgirls, half-naked or otherwise, a huge bundle of stolen money that both sides are after, and various lesser mobsters that are always either being tortured or getting killed. This formula is slightly varied for each production, but the denouement is always the same; almost everyone dies violently...
...search for arms and political enemies, had roughed up their quarry, had in some instances proved trigger-happy. Already angered by Mobutu's threat to bring an armored unit into Léopoldville to impose his will, Dayal called the bespectacled colonel on the carpet before an array of U.N. brass, issued a blunt warning that the army's illegal and arbitrary acts would no longer be tolerated...
Plank agreed with Sohn, pointing out that the unocmmitted nations will "do their utmost" to keep East-West conflicts out of the General Assembly in order to work on the "mammoth array of problems which they face...