Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Philip Roth's stinging, perceptive 1959 novella has been turned into a slick little film about the glories, detours and tribulations of young love. Director Larry Peerce is often self-indulgent, but he has extracted two attractive performances from Richard Benjamin and a stunning newcomer named Ali MacGraw...
STOLEN KISSES. François Truffaut's newest film is a lyrical souvenir of adolescence that fairly bursts with its director's exuberance, his warm sense of humor and his subtle, never condescending portrait of the excesses and errors of youth...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. This might have been just another kidnaping movie, but Director Hubert Cornfield has a sure and shrewd eye that transforms an ordinary story into a surreal seminar in the poetics of psychological terror. The small cast is uniformly excellent, and Marlon Brando does his best work in years as a slangy hipster criminal...
...Employment Opportunity Commission. While the holding action will not prevent Brown's eventual confirmation, it did embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen is going along with American Medical Association opposition to the selection...
Dirksen was instrumental in getting Nixon to shy away from appointing Dr. Franklin Long, a Cornell chemist, as director of the National Science Foundation. He would not abide Long's opposition to anti-ballistic-missile systems and said so to Nixon's advisers. The President acknowledged publicly that he was shelving the Long appointment because of the ABM issue. Last week, however, Nixon reversed himself, admitting that he had been wrong (by that time Long was no longer interested in the job). Nixon's statement seemed to be a rebuke to Dirksen...