Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delivering the eighth Burton Lecture, Coombs decried "fragmentation" in America's "vast sprawling public and private" aid effort. He said that aid, whether in the form of grants from the government or exchange programs arranged by universities, must be directed at the "fundamental problems" of the underdeveloped nations...
Most audiences would dispute her, and so would her fellow actors. After a season with the Old Vic, she played opposite Olivier in Rhinoceros. "Marvelous," said Sir Larry. Richard Burton was wary of doing a scene with her in The V.I.P.s and, as he had feared, she took the scene away from him. "Grand larceny it was," he said without rancor...
...Wright has broken its monopoly in color TV tubes by building a plant to supply half of Zenith's tubes. Joe Wright has an unlikely background for an executive. Son of a Montana dentist, he worked through law school as an aide to Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler in the 1930s, later became an antitrust lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, where he tangled with many businessmen-including U.S. Steel Counsel Roger Blough, who lost to Wright in a steel-pricing case. Changing sides in 1952, Wright was hired as Zenith's counsel with the job of cracking...
...water from Puerto Vallarta. Daily at noon, Taylor arrives by launch, often dressed in a pink bikini, bringing a picnic lunch for Richard from the kitchen of their four-story villa. Ashore, she and Richard go around in a Jeep with a red and white striped canvas top. Burton is the company champion at flinging frisbees. He has learned Spanish, using records and written grammar. He is working well, too. With Williams and Huston behind him, it is conceivable that this movie could win him an Academy Award. "I can tell when I'm in a good picture...
Tennessee Williams has his doubts. He hustled down to Puerto Vallarta last month to try to talk Huston out of using a Happy Ending. But Huston is obstinate, so Williams grew a beard and tried to keep cool by going swimming in the luke waters with Taylor and Burton. Tennessee wears a bathing cap and Elizabeth does...