Cleopatra Opens Broadway With Roman Circus Spectacle
New York UPI reports Cleopatra arrived on Broadway with a record setting premiere turning Times Square into a Roman spectacle. Rex Harrison attended the Rivoli premiere as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were absent. The four hour film cost 40 million dollars and aims to rescue 20th Century Fox finances amid vast public and media attention.
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Cleo” Taylor
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Wallace Turns Campus Control Over to Kennedy
Gov George Wallace surrendered control of the integrated University of Alabama campus to President Kennedy and ordered state forces out as about 2000 federalized National Guardsmen moved in. Army MPs and special forces units joined patrols while 800 guardsmen remained under separate orders. Two Negro students Vivian Malone and James Hood attended classes amid tense but orderly scenes.
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