Word: candidness
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Business as Usual. But the businesslike Lebanese were unwilling to forsake completely their hallowed tradition of vote buying. Agents from Egypt and neighboring Syria were bankrolling U.A.R.-lining candidates, on occasion subsidized two opposing coreligionists. One candidate, who feared that all the Moslems would vote for his opponent, bid $16 for every Moslem election card-without which no one could vote. Another candidate said he was offered $7,000 to quit the race for the less than $6,000-a-year Deputy's job. With pay so small, why was the bribe so high? Explained one candid hopeful...
...Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). With Allen Funt's Candid Camera...
...complain about the placidity of its editorial page, the Post supported the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, condemned Orval Faubus' stand in Little Rock. The Post's attitude is that it is best to do things quietly, reflecting its motto: "Let facts be submitted to a candid world." Says Mrs. Hobby: "State lines, national lines, rivers and oceans are no more than markings on a map. We want to give our readers the opportunity to know more about national and international problems and how interdependent Houston is on them." With such guidance, Managing Editor Bill Hobby...
...kindly plug or two for Queen Elizabeth's coachman, Joseph Cooze. He described the mounted Sovereign's Escort as "this lovely, twinkling jingle of breastplates," and back at Buckingham Palace, when a telescopic longshot followed the royal family as they left the balcony and got a candid peek at the Queen Mother mimicking a part of the ceremony, Dimbleby was propriety itself: "I think we ought not to stand and watch the royal family inside their own house any more...
Come Back, Africa. Filmed in secret and crude in craftsmanship, Lionel (On the Bowery) Rogosin's candid-camera movie manages a fairminded, matter-of-fact look at a modern nightmare: the black depths of South African society...