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Names make news. Last week these names made this news: On the palace-lined canals of Venice, thousands of Venetians cheered and waved handkerchiefs as a procession of black, gold-trimmed gondolas bore 300 blue bloods (including 48 princes and princesses, 60 counts and countesses, dozens of barons, a scattering of dukes and duchesses) to the tiny 16th century San Sebastiano Church, where pretty, Rome-born Princess Virginia Ira Fürstenberg, 15, married suave, Madrid-born Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe Langenburg...
Anita Bjorg, playing the title role, deserves much of the credit for keeping Miss Julie from becoming the complete bore that it might have been. She and director Sjoberg have conceived Miss Julie as a character balanced on the edge of madness. Bjork's performance is particularly impressive in those moments when the balances seems to be lost altogether...
...China last week came six of the 41 U.S. civilians due for release under the recent agreement at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 19). One was a young airline pilot; four were Roman Catholic priests, one of whom bore shackle marks. There was also Walter A. Rickett, 34, of Seattle, alumnus of the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania, who had been a Marine Corps intelligence officer on Iwo Jima. Richett had gone to China as a Fulbright scholar in 1948, and since July 1951, he had been in jail for "espionage." After meeting Walter Rickett in Hong Kong, TIME...
...Take into consideration that the Soviet Union covers one-sixth of the earth's surface . . ." he said. "The conference was overshadowed by the memories of the last war.* It was not like other conferences. Passions, not rule of logic, played the predominant role . . . The hospitality at official functions bore no relation to the atmosphere at negotiations. The hospitality was hearty. The negotiations were mordant . . . We, I believe, did right...
...Moslem Brotherhood's power to interfere with his aims. Six Moslem Brothers were hanged-one of the rare acts of bloodletting of the Nasser revolution. The Brotherhood's leadership was immobilized. By a curious coincidence, it was noted that a pamphlet put out by the Brotherhood bore traces of Naguib's hand. The genial general was asked to go, and meekly went into isolation in an expropriated palace on the Nile. Said Nasser: "He was a good man, though a simple one. He was really ignorant. Power spoiled...