Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassing situation for Kaunda, who must swallow enough of his African nationalist pride to stay on speaking terms with white-supremacist regimes that most other black Africans have boycotted. Kaunda's enforced moderation has fallen on deaf ears in Rhodesia, whose racist Premier Ian Smith seems bent on severing all ties with Zambia-including the rail line. "There's going to be a hell of a trouble unless the people down there can see sense quickly," says Zambian Vice President Reuben Kamanga...
Mixed-Up Hormones. Hollywood's Jane Bond entry is Israeli Actress Gila Golan in Our Man Flint. She is the chief operative of a sinister, SMERSH-type organization named Galaxy, which is bent on ruling the world. Gila is not hipped on personal combat, prefers to smear up the opposition with time bombs hidden in cold-cream jars. The most nonviolent Jane is Diane Cilento, the real-life Mrs. James Bond-or Mrs. Sean Connery to the literal-minded. In Once...
...been a curious meeting of minds. Educated at the Sorbonne and Oxford, a world-famed author and lecturer, a leftward-leaning pillar of England's Establishment, Barbara Ward, 51, acquired at the top the same idealistic bent to which Lyndon Johnson aspired from the bottom. It can best be described as messianic materialism, a creed that renders unabashedly both to Caesar and to conscience...
Here the Beatles are pursued by a band of bloodthirsty Orientals bent on making a human sacrifice out of Ringo, who has become inextricably attached to a mysterious ring. There they are superpursued by a mad scientist who is convinced that the ring will enable him to rule the world. Between here and there, the Beatles romp triumphantly through trap doors, poison gas, poisoned arrows, death rays, flamethrowers, shrinking drugs, a man-eating tiger and a men's-room hand dryer that goes into reverse with suction so strong that it pulls the plumbing off the walls...
...Economic Opportunity Commission. The thrust of Shriver's program is toward creating employment and employable people, and its experiments may give guidance in determining what U.S. society and Government will do next for the Negro. For ultimately, opportunity is a good job−a job that lets a bent-down man lift up his head, marry, get a better house, form a self-respecting family, acquire the stake that damps the violent impulse...