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Road to Immortality. Political assassination, said Dr. G. Wilse Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., did not change from the time of Cain to that of the Medici, but in the modern era there has been a change in the character of the assassin. Today's hired killer wants no part of any attempt on the life of a prominent political figure. Such work is too dangerous. That leaves two types of assassinations: the conspiracy, as in the death of Lincoln, and the person-to-person attack. But the conspiracy against Lincoln was conceived and directed by John Wilkes Booth...
Michael P. Cain '63-4, and Peter B. Brooks '67, have won the top prizes in the Leverett House Arts Festival. Cain received his $75 award for drawing and composition, and Brooks for drawing and painting...
...mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die to defend canon law, made great by the great office thrust upon him, or is he merely a self-appointed martyr in search of his Cain? Given a mass of ambiguities to project, Burton projects them remarkably well. He daringly meets the competition offered by O'Toole with a sober, almost stubbornly restrained performance-and if the script defeats him, his commanding presence and magnificent voice carry him a long way. The scene...
...Goldmarks, former U.S. Senator Harry Cain (Rep., Wash.), who had served three years on the Subversive Activities Control Board, testified that the A.C.L.U. has never been a Communist front. And in a lighter moment, Actor Sterling Hayden, in full beard, testified that leaving the Communist Party is easy (he himself left in 1946 after six months) and the discipline only as tough as one makes it: "I was the only person I know to buy a yacht and join the party in the same week...
...Paul Newman and Maria Callas, who won't sing but might "hum a little." Still feeling that a bit more bounce is needed for The Bible, Director John Huston, 57, has added his bibulous knight of the Iguana, Richard Burton, to either narrate or play (but not raise) Cain. Did that mean Liz Taylor would also join the cast? Absolutely not, quoth Huston. "Perhaps there may be something for her in the sequel-when we do the part about Potiphar's wife...