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...neotiations are unravelling each knot in the Laotian crisis almost justifies the British government's faith that a settlement is immanent. The importance of a cease-fire, the return of the international commission to Laos, and a 14-power conference to settle the future of that faction-torn land--all are, in vaguest outline, agreed on. The latest Russian note indicates that Khrushchev is willing to be reasonable though unhurried...
...just four months, Thao has recaptured about half of the 75 villages once controlled by the Communists in Kienhoa. He has driven the surviving 800 guerrillas into a 130-sq.-mi. pocket and hopes to have them cleaned out within a year. He has torn down most of the jails in the province, built hospitals and schools, and he is now training 370 schoolteachers to replace corrupt village officials. Says Thao: "It is a long, slow process. We cannot win unless the people are on our side...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Anne Baxter stars in a drama, "The Shame of Paula Marsten," about a trauma-torn ex-Army nurse...
...battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery"). Between the wailing and the railing, some valid points get made...
Ingrid Bergman Special (CBS, 9-10:30 p.m.). Portraying an English widow, Actress Bergman spends most of the "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" in the gambling halls of Monte Carlo trying to win herself an American (Rip Torn...