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...RUNNING MAN. With Britain's Sir Carol Reed (The Third Man) deftly applying each turn of the screw, Lee Remick and Laurence Harvey sweat it out as a couple who feign death (his) and grief (hers), then flee to Spain with the insurance money...
...which immortalizes an American town--Tuxedo, N. Y. It gained its excellent name through an incident in 1886. In that gilded year a member of the 400 appeared at a Newport gala with the tails neatly snipped off his frock coat. Understandably scandalized, the fashionable crowd forced him to flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name of the town which accepted it. Recently, though, the tuxedo has often lost its excellent name to be called another variant of the dinner jacket...
...years since Fidel Castro took power, some 300,000 people, or 4% of Cuba's entire population, have fled the country. And still they flee...
After the Lynching. Mme. Nhu's performance began at the Saigon airport. She said that when her mother cabled her from the U.S. urging her to flee South Viet Nam with her children because their lives were in danger, she had answered: "Dear Mother, I am sorry you have become intoxicated." To a question about her itinerary, she said: "Everyone calls me 'the Dragon Lady.' For the next few weeks, I will be like the dragonfly of the Vietnamese song. When it's happy, it stays; when it's unhappy, it flies away...
Latin America's revolution-riddled history has made its leaders sensitive about the right of political asylum. Mindful that today's ins may be to morrow's outs, new rulers often let a predecessor flee abroad, and do not try to bring him back no matter how deserving of punishment he may be. In the U.S., for different reasons, the right of asylum has also been held in high regard. Until last week, no deposed chief of state who had taken refuge in the U.S. had ever been extradited to his homeland...