Word: edmund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dodger's wife, has lost 10 Ibs. Virtually all the cast have cuts, bruises or splinters to show for their pains, and Seale, 70, has developed bursitis in his knee. Whitehead sums up the experience by telling the story of a man who went to visit Edmund Gwenn as the vintage actor languished on his deathbed. "It must be hard, very hard, Ed," the friend offered. "It is," Gwenn replied. "But not as hard as farce." And not nearly as funny. -ByDenise Worrell...
...generally regarded as a major poet. Edmund Wilson accurately summed it up with "writes well, but there is not much in her." Her gift was for the short, precise line: "The hard sand breaks,/ and the grains of it/ are clear as wine." She was greatly influenced by ancient Greek and encouraged by Ezra Pound, to whom she was briefly engaged. Hilda first met him when she was 15 and he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania; her father was director of the school's Flower Astronomical Observatory. Doolittle and Pound were not the only future literary...
...York Times National Security Correspondent Leslie Gelb to help shape the program. Gelb in turn recruited a panel of seven experts, called the "control group," who wrote a 100-page briefing book and picked the players. Their apt casting for President: former Secretary of State (and presidential candidate) Edmund Muskie. His nine advisers included two former Defense Secretaries: James Schlesinger, who had that title again, and Clark Clifford, who played the Secretary of State. Former Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, who reluctantly wore his uniform, acted as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The group was well...
...After, the ABC film on the consequences of a nuclear exchange. Two weeks ago the network taped a strategic war game in which onetime officials and politicians role-play an unrehearsed version of how both sides might handle a superpower showdown. Former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, 69, is cast as the U.S. President. (Muskie will have to watch the program from a hospital bed; he suffered a heart attack at his home in Maine last week.) Former Defense Secretaries James Schlesinger, 54, and Clark Clifford, 76, portray the Secretaries of Defense and State respectively. The result, says former Assistant...
...Commission chaired by Edmund Muskie, a liberal with a strong reputation for integrity--examines formal complaints that the company is not adhering to World Health Organization (WHO) codes, hears arguments from both sides, and issues formal decisions. The Commission's power to enforce its judgments is nil. It relies solely on company cooperation and its to pressure the company through publicity...