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From the White House to Capitol Hill went the nominations of two first-rate Missouri lawyers-Floyd R. Gibson of Kansas City, and William H. Becker of Columbia-for a pair of vacant district judgeships in the western half of the state. Since both men have earned the approval of the American Bar Association-and, more importantly, the political backing of Democratic Senators Stuart Symington and Edward Long-the Senate was expected to pass quickly and approvingly on the appointments. Thus one of the most important domestic problems confronting the New Frontier last week moved a small step closer...
Writer-director Jacques Becker seems in this case to have fallen asleep over both the screenplay and his camera. His story is routine, and so long in unfolding that one waits with impatience for the first shot to be fired. And further, M. Becker's idea of "artistic" direction is to shoot innumerable scenes through the front window of a lazily cruising automobile...
...BECKER RASMUSSEN...
...Witness (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Re-enactment of the case of Charles Becker, the New York City police lieutenant electrocuted in 1915 for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. As played by Nehemiah Persoff, Becker will be put on the griddle by real lawyers in a simulated investigation...
...Rest and inactivity, once a cardiac lesion has healed, do not prolong life," say Drs. Marvin C. Becker and Jerome G. Kaufman of Newark's Beth Israel Hospital and Rutgers University's Wayne Vasey. In Circulation, published by the American Heart Association, they condemn too much rest as likely to lead to "physical and emotional incapacity." Physicians and family may be as much to blame as the heart patients themselves for fostering idleness. To rehabilitate a patient after an attack, the researchers suggest, "we must accept the philosophy that work is a normal part of living, and important...