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...helicopter crash did what the attempted coups had failed to do and killed President Abdul Salam Aref (TIME, April 22), Egypt's President Nasser wanted to be sure that Iraq's new ruler would be as friendly to Egyptian aims as Aref. Off to Baghdad went Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's No. 2 man, ostensibly to attend Aref's funeral but essentially to see that Nasser got what he wanted. Last week, with a nudge from the Egyptians, Iraq's Cabinet and top generals picked an underdog as Aref's successor...
...dialogue-says it with exceptional humor and freshness in precisely 18 minutes. Never overemphasizing, music combines with the insistent scrape of skate wheels in a cheery valedictory to the beardless lads (all played by nonprofessionals), presumably headed for new spills and thrills on the freeways of biological maturity. Producer Marshal Backlar, 30, and Writer-Director Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish it to professional perfection-a swift, sensitive and funny celebration of a small universal truth. Succinct as poetry, Skaterdater...
Died. Field Marshal Abdul Salam Aref, 47, President of Iraq, a wily plotter who was General Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter...
Milovan Djilas is probably the world's most publicized political prisoner. He may also be the most published. A former Vice Premier in Marshal Tito's government, he was slapped into jail in 1956 for his sizzling censures of the regime. There he has languished loquaciously for almost a decade, fearlessly issuing criticism, history and fiction about life in Yugoslavia (Conversations with Stalin, The New Class). This book, completed in 1959, is the first detailed biography of Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop (from 1830 to 1851) of Djilas' native Montenegro, and Serbia...
Everyone who saw him still remembers how calm Soviet Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov appeared. In a hillside bunker overlooking the Kustrin bridgehead, less than 38 miles from the stricken city, he rested both elbows on the concrete ledge and took a last look into the predawn darkness through his field glasses. Finally, he glanced at his watch and allowed a few more seconds to tick by before he said, "Now, comrades...