Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss government cherishes its neutrality as a Saint Bernard guards its brandy cask. Last week, after scratching noisily and growling discreetly, the Swiss finally got across the point that they really did not want President Kennedy to appoint his old Palm Beach neighbor and friend, Millionaire Broker Earl E. T. Smith, as U.S. Ambassador to Bern. Smith's qualifications for the post were hardly self-evident. But Switzerland also had a technical objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss...
...bureau chief for Agence France-Presse, France's seasoned Newsman (Korea, Dienbienphu) Bernard Ullmann, 38, was one of two Western reporters permitted to reside in Peking and to travel about the country. Last week, after 18 months in Red China, Ullmann provided a rare non-Communist view of life in Red China in a copyrighted article for A.F.P. and the New York Times Magazine...
...strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road gang's traditional chant. Wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express: "Certainly the show lacks the fine cutting edge that the Americans grind onto their musicals. But the more sophistication, the less vitality. And King Kong triumphs in the end by its bursting, smoking, glowing life...
...Millionairess. British Comedian Peter Sellers emerges as a major international star playing that anomaly, an innocent doctor, in a heavy-handed remake of Bernard Shaw's comedy fable about the complications of being rich...
...Millionairess. British Comedian Peter Sellers emerges as a major international star playing that anomaly, an innocent doctor, in a remake of Bernard Shaw's comedy fable about the complications of being rich...