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Stuart Whitman plays a U.S. marshal who patrols a vast, wild borderland somewhere between Kansas and Indian territory. Premiere...
...proud-owner of Chet Huntley's beef farm [Aug. 18] out "in the badlands of central New Jersey" (sometimes referred to by other purveyors of news as that beautifully tranquil countryside out near Bucks County, Pa.), I feel constrained to advise your readership that Marshal Dillon has all the vigilantes locked in the hoosegow, and they won't be let out unless the Beverly Hillbillies ride in to shoot up the town...
...invitation was for dinner at the presidential villa, and Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, former Vice President of Egypt, ex-commander of its armed forces, accepted with pleasure...
...marshal aircraft carriers, a fleet of jets and half a million men for the war in Viet Nam, but when it comes to scholarship in Vietnamese language and culture, the nation is woefully unprepared. As Harvard Sinologist John K. Fairbank put it at a conference of Orientalists...
Williams' story does contain some rib-a'd fun. "Come on, desiccated creeps," Reaney cries out in a with-it drinking club, "throw off your guilt, throw out your chests, you're English. Form up the squares, Kabul to Kandahar, Mad Mullahs, Pathans, Uhlans, Marshal Ney -stuff the lot of them, bloody foreigners, show them cold English steel." But his writing is marred by cliches of thought ("That was life, people dominated by people, dominating others in turn") and some awful puns ("Ezra Pounds while Ernest Humsaway...