Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fahrenheit 451, or How I Stopped Burning Books, is a plug for Library Week. Librarians -- half a smile, coughdrops, their hair restrained in buns -- should champion it. The movie has that peculiar fate because Truffaut strated using Ray Bradbury material and didn't know when to stop...
...wanted it to happen then." Although a majority of the board had long since lost faith in Kerr, they did not want his dismissal to coincide with a new Governor's assumption of office, precisely in order to avoid the political implications. But Kerr's ultimate fate was foreordained. "Good as he is-and he is damn good," says one regent, "he had developed enough barnacles that...
Died. Sig Ruman, 82, German-born character actor whose fate it was to be come Hollywood's idea of the typical "Kraut," the beefy, blustering, blundering seriocomic German, a role he played in endless films, most notably as Sergeant Schultz in 1953's Stalag 17; of a heart attack; in Julian, Calif...
Weird and tragic turns of fate marked the fire's progress. Two men climbed a gum tree to escape deceptively low flames in the tinder-dry grass; the resinous tree erupted like a match, gluing their bodies to its trunk. In the coastal resort of Snug, villagers ran into the sea and watched neck deep as their town disappeared. An elderly man and his wife ran for their lives as the river of flame roared toward their house; the fire changed its course, and their bodies were found 100 yards from their untouched home. When the flames neared...
...Alsatian, Schoendoerffer, 38, is one of France's leading war reporters. He was with the French troops at Dienbienphu, shared their fate in a Communist prisoner-of-war camp, won the Médaille Militaire. Last fall, for six weeks Schoendoerffer...