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...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Nanette Fabray narrates "Theater of the Deaf," which takes a look at three leading directors (Arthur Penn, Joe Layton and Gene Lasko) working with deaf actors at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation in Waterford, Conn. Scenes from Kismet, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, All the Way Home and South Pacific...
...speech last night, Licht complained that the Executive Committee had "turned a deaf ear" to the wishes of the general membership when it refused to invite Maddox. He wanted to invite Maddox; Dalton refused to discuss the merits of individual speakers...
This kind of realism can be carried to riduculous extremes, as a freak exponent of the genre--The Spy with a Cold Nose--attempts to prove. Here the spy, played by Lionel Jeffries, has a nagging wife, a nitwit sidekick, a deaf secretary in her second childhood, and an office not unlike one of your local Chinese laundries. But though the wit lasts about forty-five minutes, the film's running time is considerably longer...
...Communists succeed in their aggression," said Thai Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, "we would be the next target. This action is being taken in direct defense of Thailand." Thailand turned a deaf ear to Hanoi's raucous denunciation of this "new and odious act of treason by the reactionary Thailand government clique." After all, about a third of the guerrillas who are operating in its northeast are Vietnamese who have slipped across the Mekong River from Communist redoubts in Laos to join Chinese-trained Thais and some members of the Pathet Lao in spreading terror through the region...
...case of Jack Ruby, who faced a second murder trial before his death last week, a change of venue seemed almost absurd. Probably only a few deaf, blind, illiterate Alaskan Eskimos had never heard of Ruby's crime, much less seen it on film. Yet his lawyers settled for shifting the trial from Dallas to Wichita Falls, a mere 135 miles away. True, Mars was out, but why Wichita Falls? Simply the luck of the draw. The case came before Judge Louis T. Holland, who was sitting temporarily in Dallas, but whose regular district includes Wichita Falls. Not only...