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...itself, that the new nation must go back to work if it wanted new schools, roads, houses. Morocco needed the French, and Mohammed V indulged in no rabble-rousing rhetoric about "expelling the oppressors." He called for the "creation of democratic institutions resulting from free elections . . . within the framework of a constitutional monarchy...
...named the Vertijet. is a small, delta-winged job that takes off from a suspended position, hanging from a framework like a bat. Last week Test Pilot Peter F. Girard, sitting on his back with his face to the sky. started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover to normal level...
Coming back to his take-off point at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, he pulled up the nose of the X-13 until it was hovering noisily like a rotor-less helicopter. Then he descended under the framework and maneuvered the batlike plane into take-off position. After two such demonstrations, the X-13 was tipped onto its belly and wheeled into the hangar like any other jet plane...
Some, however, do not. And, furthermore, vicious and nearly unrelieved horror is extremely hard to portray on a bright stage so close to the audience as is Eliot's. Within this framework of difficulties, however, the production is admirable. The director, Roger Graef, treats horror boldly and hardly ever sacrifices his characters to a mere spectacular surface. Although his first act is occasionally loose, his later treatment is strong. The brilliantly ironic scene in which the vicious empress and her two sons visit Titus disguised as Revenge, Rape, and Murder is directed superbly. Lit in dim red and blue, which...
...whole, the film fits into the existentialist framework, though with two or three rough edges. The heroine, played by comely Michele Morgan, is passing through a small South American town with her husband as the film opens. He is gravely ill with what develops to be meningitis. He dies horribly on a filthy newspaper-covered mattress, retching as he dies. The whole town then quarantined is threatened by the plague...