Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin; and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. The familiar chronicling of Nazi terror against European Jewry takes a grim turn closer to home with documentation showing that Allied governments, including the U.S., refused to take action to prevent the genocide...
...graded it either poor or a waste of time-or refused to fill out the survey form. And even Chief Short admits that he is pleased with the results. By late fall, all 1,400 of Houston's police will, as Short puts it, "have gotten a closer look at the people." Already Sikes has received reports from the city's Negro districts of increased courtesy and assistance by policemen. "I don't think there's any question that some change toward understanding is taking place," he says. "And with understanding comes a change in attitude...
...essential simplicity of construction underlying Bringing Up Baby seems the more remarkable when you consider that it belongs to that class of movies known as "screwball comedies." Theoretically Baby is closer in genre to the Marx Bros. Pictures than to high comedies on the order of The Philadelphia Story. In practice, the presence of Grant and Hepburn, stars of great craft and surprising versatility, defines the tone of Baby as much as its insane story-line. When Grant says, "It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because in moments of quiet I feel strangely drawn...
Montreal defeated the Bruins, 5-2, last night and moved one game closer to the finals of the National Hockey League's Eastern Divisional Play-offs. Boston now trails Montreal, 0-3, in the best-of-seven series. In the other semifinal series, New York eads Chicago...
...concentrated coverage that theGlobegave to the New Hampshire and Wisconsin primaries is a dramatic indication of their new political disposition. Says Menzies of the Globe'scampaign coverage, "We try for balance"; but what they try for often seems closer to exhaustiveness than balance. On a day when Kennedy and McCarthy both make news. Menzies tries to get an LBJ story and a Nixon story even if Johnson and Nixon have done nothing outside the routine. "What do we do on LBJ?" he asked the other day during a page-planning session, and staff members searched through news releases to find...