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...something of a surprise. Of medium height and medium age (42), diffident in manner, ascetic in habits, with his voice emotionlessly level and his expression forever veiled by dark glasses, Benkhedda resembles his nickname of M'sieu Tout le Monde (Mr. Every body). No flag-waving Moslem mob has ever ecstatically screamed his name. Ben khedda came up through the ranks of the F.L.N. as a machine-minded organizer...
...they have wanted to develop a new art form which could stand by itself, without heavy borrowing from related areas. Too often they have gone little beyond the scope of the legitimate theater; they have done little more than photograph a play heightened in its vividness by close-ups, mob scenes, fast-paced cutting and all the other techniques worked out over the last fifty years. And Almost no one has created a film so uniquely a film as Alain Resnais (director) and Alain Robbe-Grillet (screenwriter...
Immediately, 800 rebellious Congolese appeared from the bush, aimed their rifles at the intruder. "Since I was outnumbered." he recalled, "there was only one thing to do-advance." But when one of the mob jabbed an arrow in his back ("Quite low on my back, actually"), Lawson wheeled around, punched the assailant in the nose. For some reason, this started the other Congolese roaring with laughter, and before long Lawson and Father Jules Darmant of Belgium, sole survivor of the mass murder, were flying back to Leopoldville...
Correct Calm. Two days later, Lawson was back in Kongolo looking for more priests to rescue. He was captured and beaten with fists and rifle butts by angry troops. Finally, Katangese officers took charge, and to satisfy a howling mob that demanded a public execution, the officers beat him up again until the crowd was content and went home. The officers then apologized to Lawson. who-proceeded to round up three more priests before flying back to U.N. headquarters in Luluabourg...
Died. Edward C. Yellowley, 88, nemesis of Prohibition-era bootleggers, a Mississippi-born revenooer who harried the Capone mob with the aid of "The Untouchables," blazed a trail of shut speakeasies from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., but lost heart in New York, admitting that it would take a million agents to mop the metropolis dry; of a heart attack; in Chicago...