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Last week De Gaulle pushed matters closer to the brink by doubling postage rates for Monegasques to 10? a letter. After hushed parleys in his palace, Rainier retaliated in kind. With the crisis threatening to escalate, Princess Grace rushed back from a shopping trip to Paris with her two children and a poodle, and 30 "war" correspondents flocked into the principality. In the U.S., meanwhile, Rainier found a champion in the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, a quondam Riviera rover now based in Washington. Rainier should bar a Negro student from the Monaco High School, suggested Buchwald...
...late to offer specific points of negotiation before striding so courageously to the brink of war. Had Kennedy substituted any such points for the cliches he addressed to Cuba, he would have created a situation in which the Cuban Government either had to back down on its militarization, or blatantly expose its inability...
...last third of the film, Hudson is driven to the babbling brink of insanity by a witch doctor in an isolated jungle outpost, and his once-scoffing lips utter a prayer. At this point, Rock Hudson abruptly begins to look less like Gary Grant and more like Dostoevsky. Neither disguise helps him to make any acting distinction between an encounter with God and a bout with the malarial mosquito...
...back streets of Albany, King pleaded with his fellow Negroes and called for a day of penance to atone for their riot. Next day, after leading a prayer meeting outside city hall, King and nine others were thrown into jail, and for days afterward Albany teetered on the brink of riot...
...Brink. Amid rumors that 30 people had been killed in the takeover of Constantine, public opinion temporarily began to turn away from Ben Bella. Though no outside newsmen had been in Constantine, reporters filed stories that Algeria was "teetering on the brink of civil war." Down from Paris flew a whole new contingent of correspondents, searching in vain for the war. Almost triumphantly, Ben Bella annouced that actually fewer than five people had been killed in the Constantine "skirmish." To show his good faith, Ben Bella ordered the release of the Cabinet minister his forces had captured...