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...Suez, is still restlessly demanding self-determination. And as Lloyd headed east to Pakistan, his plane stopped at Bahrein Island, a rich oil sheikdom under British protection, off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Foreign Minister Lloyd's cavalcade was met with a shower of stones from a rioting mob shouting, "Down with Britain...
...Arabian gold, flowed through the little land. Glubb's Legion put down the rioters but only after young (20) King Hussein (who was schooled, like Winston Churchill, at Harrow and Sandhurst) had foresworn the Baghdad pact and some of the Arab Legionnaires had refused to fight against the mob...
...cross-questioning, Marshall led J. Jefferson Bennett, assistant to President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, to admit that the protective efforts of the university could hardly be called vigorous. No students were arrested. The mob threatening Autherine had been told only to "move," and the fire truck on the scene had not been used to hose down and thus disperse the crowd. Assistant to the Dean of Students Henry Sikir agreed that he had seen no action taken against the mob other than "talking to them." Asked Marshall: "Have you reported [any student] in that group to anybody?" Said Sikir...
...some junctures Olivier's inspirations cannot be explained at any point short of genius. His transition from the Hitleresque vaudevillain stuff in the mob scene is an act of high poetic terror: he leaps, epileptic with triumph, from his balcony to the bell rope that is tolling in his reign, and down it he goes, twirling like a mad chimpanzee in his surely insane lust to see the first man bend the knee...
...Ladykillers (Rank; Continental) is another Alec Guinness romp, in some ways even funnier than his 1951 Lavender Hill Mob. It is also a refreshing parody on the current rash of U.S. films, e.g., The Desperate Hours, The Night Holds Terror, in which humble citizens are terrorized by hoodlums...