Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barred by the 22nd Amendment from a third term, Dwight Eisenhower is keenly mindful that, whatever pleasant or unpleasant surprises may lie ahead of him in 1960, one element of the future is certain: in January 1961, another man will be inaugurated as President of the U.S. That certainty was much on the President's mind last week. Said he, in a brief speech to an Advertising Council meeting in Washington, a yearly rite: "I find now, as some eight years ago I was doing things for the first time. I am doing them now for the final time...
...military power, was gaining a new reputation for "moderation, wisdom, respect for international law . . . Suez blew it all away," and Britain was made to appear "the same old grasping imperialist as ever, but toothless and rather incompetent." If Eden had not resorted to force, "some kind of international element in the control of the canal would have been preserved; the weakness of Great Britain and France would not have been so publicly demonstrated, and many people now dead would be alive...
...That Lady? (Columbia) gives the first sly wink of its camera eye in a Columbia University chemistry lab, where an arcane experiment is in progress: Assistant Professor Tony Curtis is kissing a girl student. An unstable element, his wife, Janet Leigh, enters the lab and explodes. Janet promptly informs the errant Tony that he has defiled their five-year marriage and that she is heading for Reno to be decontaminated. Poor Tony begs his old pal, Dean Martin, a TV writer, to cook up an alibi to placate Janet. Dean's idea: Tony is really an undercover...
...could not, to focus its interest and excite its pace. The scenes of destruction are particularly explicit and dramatic: most of the film was shot aboard the old Ile de France just before she was junked in Japan. And yet, in its total effect, The Last Voyage lacks an element essential in all great disasters: dignity. Indeed, the idle depredation of a noble old ship, for the mere sake of salable sensation, may seem to some moviegoers an absolute indignity...
...state declamation championship), and, inevitably, he was class valedictorian. A talent for leadership, too, was early manifest : at the frequent reunions of his mother's multitudinous Norwegian family*-there were eleven aunts and uncles, almost 60 first cousins-it was invariably young Hubert who organized the younger element into social activity...