Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson (vice-Presidents usually make such trips) is hard to evaluate... Lyndon is madder than hell about it." Wilson noted the ever increasing part that at the younger Kennedy is playing in the present administration, and at one time, compared him to the Harry Hopkins of New Deal fame...
Died. Roscoe Ates, 67, slight, Mississippi-born Hollywood comedian who cured himself of stammering as a youth, made a lifelong hobby of helping other stammerers, but won his film fame and a lush living as a stuttering stooge; of lung cancer; in Encino, Calif...
Ironically, the journalist realizes a handsome profit from his immorality: fame and fortune as a hero of the Resistance. The baker collects the unglamorous rewards of virtue: hard work, self-respect, the love of the German family. When the farmer is drafted, the baker quietly becomes the man of the house, running the farm and protecting the wife and children as if they were his own. In the last reel, Cayatte adroitly points the moral: liberation makes the baker truly a free man, but it leaves the journalist still a slave to his own weakness...
Both men seem to have transcended their past careers with this picture, finding in each other just the proper complement to their own failings. Resnais gained great fame by directing Hiroshima, Mon Amour. In it, he showed all sorts of technical ability with flashbacks and composition, but he never seemed able to integrate this talent with Marguerite Duras' rather somnolent script. Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand, wrote novels that yearned for visual expression. In La Jalousie, for instance, he spends most of his time painting in the very smallest details of a banana plantation. Amid the minutiae, the author...
...again, off again, on again. Francis Powers has been reinstated in the baseball hall of fame and the good graces of the CIA. Twenty months ago, Powers was billed as the strike-out king; landing alive and intact among gentle Russian captors, he had failed to use the suicide needle so generously provided...