Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political war party out for revenge. Since Howie won the Massachusetts YR Chairmanship from former HYRC boss Hugh Barber, he is a strong candidate for national chairman. Bruce Chapman is actively backing current HYRC President Tom Alberg for the post. Many suspected in the Council petition a thinly disguised plot to knife Howie. Actually, while many ABC supporters worked against Phillips, they apparently did so on their own. Neither Alberg nor Barber openly promoted Hornblow's petition. Mike Hornblow's motives were impeccable; he had no axe to grind and sincerely believed that Phillips' abuses had to be stopped...
This time the Congo tragicomedy had the locale to fit its zany plot. It was little Coquilhatville, a cluster of dilapidated huts and buildings on the hottest, wettest spot along the whole 2,900-mile Congo River. Here the Congolese dignitaries had chosen to gather for their latest round of unity talks, perhaps on the assumption that the sheer discomfort of the place would force an early settlement...
According to the steamy 24-sheets, Return "begins where Peyton Place left off." The main characters, though portrayed by different actors, are the same, and so is the theme that the nicest people have the filthiest minds. The plot is obviously patterned on the author's own frantic life. Like Author Metalious. Heroine Allison (Carol Lynley) writes a naughty bestseller about life in her own home town, makes a stack of chips and a mess of trouble. Because of the book, her stepfather (Robert Sterling), principal of the local high school, loses his job-in real life, the author...
...weakness of the ending is presently the play's major flaw. The plot itself concludes quite brilliantly, but the actual transition to a finale is awkward. Menelaus has been losing out to rival Trojan fisheries ever since his wife was involved in a scandal for corrupting the morals of a minor (Paris). The Trojan War offers an easy way out for everyone: Helen gets her lover, Menelaus his market, Achilles his promotion stunt. . . . But Segal, somehow, doesn't get the scene which would logically conclude the show...
Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah) sees enemies everywhere. He accuses neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece of planning to partition Albania between them, and he jailed an admiral of the Albanian navy (four subchasers, six minesweepers) as a collaborator in the farfetched plot. More recently he has developed a paranoid fear of Nikita Khrushchev. He apparently suspects that Khrushchev might try to bring Yugoslavia back into the Moscow fold by offering Tito a free hand to take over Albania. Hoxha has found one dependable ally, who is a safe 3,000 miles away-Red China. Alone among the European satellites, Albania openly...