Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WRONG BOX. Bryan Forbes, who directed King Rat, is now plotting a furiously funny race to kill off one of the two surviving members of a Victorian tontine, with John Mills and Ralph Richardson at the tender mercies of their loving heirs-Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore...
...best lefthander in baseball was knocked out of the box in the third inning; he gave up three walks, four hits, six runs; and it all happened at the hands of the lowly New York Mets. But this time, for Sandy, there was nothing worse than the pain itself...
Blanching Moguls. Valenti does not presume to "tell the heads of movie companies what kind of films to make" or pretend that the industry is not ruled by the box office. He does think that he can infuse Hollywood with imagination and a zest for quality. He wants to upgrade the Oscar competition, turn it from a popularity contest into a genuine system of reward for achievement. It may make some oldtime movie moguls blanch at the thought, but only a freshman like Valenti can get away with the proclamation that the M.P.A.A. will march "with banners flying...
...same time that the box office was holding up, however, Beatlemania seemed to be on the wane. The airports were not staked out with hysterical hordes awaiting the boys' arrival; their hotels were less under siege. In New York City last week, cops counted only about 500 kids gathered around the hotel v. 10,000 the year before, and the Beatles' trip to Shea Stadium by armored truck seemed dictated more by showmanship than necessity. True, two girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their...
...Noose. Opposition to clerical involvement takes many forms -some of them crude. When Methodist Pastor Eugene Lowry of Kansas City's College Heights Methodist Church urged his congregation to hire a Negro organist, his car was burned and he found a hangman's noose on his mail box. More frequently, though, opposition takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city's Episcopal Diocese...