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...accent, which may be intended to sound like Old Yale, but doesn't and he looks as though he were still in Room at the Top. It is inconceivable that any girl would waste a week touring the East's better morels with such an out-and-out spineless creep as Mr. Harvey portrays...
...light of a new day, the Kennedy drive began to creep forward again. With some 90% of the votes counted, Kennedy led Nixon by just 770,000, but he led where it counted. Illinois was in doubt, but Kennedy seemed safely ahead in key California. Finally, even the most cautious proclaimed John Fitzgerald Kennedy the President-elect...
Miss Bardot's attempts to find the real murderer produce reactions ranging from catcalling laughter to a commendable degree of tension. Where the heroine of an Alfred Hitchcock movie would creep inquisitively into a fruit cellar, Miss Bardot pursues her suspicions into an attic, and although the only person she finds there is a police officer also investigating the crime, the classic suspense formula nevertheless brings forth some tight moments...
...could list many examples to make the point: apartheid has tentacles which creep into very home, and under many beds...
Behind the nationwide one-day strike of government employees, from postmen to customs inspectors, lay the dissatisfaction of lower-income Frenchmen at the steady upward creep of consumer prices. Though France has 30% more cars on the road this year than last, and the long-abused French franc continues to gain strength in relation to gold and the dollar, the new prosperity fostered by Charles de Gaulle has not trickled down to the lowest-paid classes. Even conservative newspapers concede that the pay of government employees, traditionally a pace setter for clerical workers generally, is disgracefully low. Only 14% earn...