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...tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
...Sterner than Swift...
...Arabs who work for us." Last week Resident General Voizard flew to Paris to take a request to Premier Mendes-France. "Terrorism has installed itself," he said. "We cannot remain passive to these attacks." Presumably that meant more troops (of which France has not enough to go around) and sterner measures. If rumors going around the Tunis bazaars have it right (and they usually have), that is just what the extremists want...
...foreign offices can now legally call a dangerous Communist penetration in another nation to the attention of the Organization of American States. The O.A.S. will investigate, and may summon all nations to consultation. By a two-thirds vote, the nations may take whatever action (e.g., admonitions, economic sanctions or sterner measures) seems advisable...
...made himself a large crop of enemies, including many democrats who disapprove his harsh methods, and collected in his scrapbooks more than 100,000 caricatures (few flattering) of his short, stubby figure and broad eye-twinkling smile. Scelba is regarded as the Christian Democrats' prime advocate of sterner measures against the Communists, who now ride higher than ever in Italy...