Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alternative Actions. Dump-Johnson movements were forming in scores of cities, aiming at blocking his renomination or at least embarrassing him with strong anti-L.B.J. showings in the primaries. In California, the names of such entertainers as Actor Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and Comedian Dick Van Dyke appeared on the letterhead of the newly formed Dissenting Democrats. New York's fractious reform Democrats were seeking to run slates of anti-Johnson delegates in next June's primary. In Washington, the Conference of Concerned Democrats was preparing to challenge him. In Pittsburgh, supporters of New York...
Died. Hannah Milhous Nixon, 82, mother of Richard; of a heart attack; in Whittier, Calif. Son Dick's career benefited repeatedly from her Quaker faith and stout support. When rumors of a secret fund threatened his vice-presidency bid in 1952, Hannah wired his running mate to be "guided aright" and stand up for her son's integrity. Dwight Eisenhower read the telegram over nationwide radio and obeyed her orders...
...client's penthouse pad for a love-in. Next morning two men (Tony Beckley and Norman Rodway) arrive, ostensibly to check the gas meter. A moment later, one of them brandishes a switchblade knife and suddenly gives the tryst a dreadful twist. Introducing themselves as Tom and Dick-Harry, they giggle, is waiting downstairs-the men truss Morgan with ribbons, and force Kendall to down tumblers of Johnnie Walker and puff on a marijuana joint. Then, mind-blown and stoned, she is twice raped, while her lover writhes helplessly at knifepoint...
Given the idea for a far-out Pinteresque horror story, British Writer-Director Peter Collinson soon bores it to death. Tom launches into portentous metaphors about abused alligators who cannot be blamed for devouring men, and ice that is taken for granted until it melts. Dick continually slavers and picks his teeth, as if the viewer needed to be reminded that he is disgusting. In the principal roles, Morgan and Kendall seem paralyzed-presumably less by fear than by the knowledge that they are supposed to be stretching a one-set drama into a feature film. Despite some flashy hall...
Strong goal-tending by Dick Locksley, playing for the injured John Axten, contained several Wesleyan threats in the third quarter as the hosts came out of the intermission raring to go. The Crimson fullbacks began to tire, though, and Wesleyan got on the scoreboard midway in the third period...