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When aerial hijackers delivered Moise Tshombe to an Algerian jail this month, his wife turned to one of the few men who might have saved her husband from extradition to the Congo-and almost certain death. Parisian Lawyer René Edmond Floriot, 64, faced appalling odds: the Congolese had already convicted Tshombe of not only treason but also murder and robbery. With eloquence, Floriot contended that the Congolese had actually amnestied Tshombe last fall. But last week he lost...
...runs with a vast assortment of lovers, longer runs and growing fame on the stage. She was the queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias, Phèdre in Racine's classic, and she donned trousers as Napoleon's hapless son, the Duc de Reichstadt, in Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon. Kings mooned over her, and audiences wept torrents over her magnificent death scenes...
...bullion and bumbles off in search of the source. Lest the implausibility of it all seem unimportant, all traces of wit, style, imagination, intelligence or any other compensation have been carefully expunged. So too in Doomsday Flight, in which it is revealed that a self-pitying psychopath (Edmond O'Brien) has placed a bomb aboard Captain Van Johnson's airliner. The bomb is set to go off when the plane descends to 4,000 feet; two sniveling hours later, fast-thinking Captain Johnson lands at Denver (altitude 5,470 feet...
WORLD PREMIERE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Rod Serling's suspense drama, Doomsday Flight, will be shown on TV before release in the movie theaters-starring Jack Lord, Van Johnson, Edmond O'Brien, Katherine Crawford, John Saxon and Richard Carlson...
...heart! With horror the voyagers realize that the only way back to the brain lies through the gnashing organ whose terrible turbulence would smash their delicate ship to smithereens. Then all at once top brass (Edmond O'Brien and Arthur O'Connell) has a dazzling idea: if the patient's heart were stopped for 60 seconds, the submarine might squeak through the right ventricle without getting tangled in the chordae tendineae that hang there in hundreds like looping lianas...