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Surprisingly, though, the story seldom lags, mainly because some first-chop talents go at it as if the idea were spanking-new. Director René Clèment (Forbidden Games) mounts several taut scenes, especially one in which passengers aboard a crowded train seize a Gestapo agent and fling him onto the rails. Fortunately, too, the dialogue by Novelist Roger Vailland neatly sidesteps heroics. "The war doesn't interest me," drawls Signoret, whose husband is safely lodged in a P.W. camp...
Wellesley College officials had forbidden the meeting the use of the Convention Hall after 5 p.m. At exactly 5:02 p.m. campus police shut off the lights and public address system. The convention's chairman, Howard J. Phillips '62, who had repeatedly warned the delegates of the deadline, had to announce the first unofficial results by yelling...
Singing Syndromes. There are no prompters in a Caldwell production, and singers are forbidden to take cues from the conductor, thus freeing opera from one of its prime embarrassments: the I'm-singing-to-her-but-I'm-looking-at-him syndrome. She strives for drama as well as spectacle; when her spear carriers enter, it is with a flash of steel and a purpose. She knows all the languages of opera, knows music so well that she often conducts. She pursues authenticity and realism to the point of demanding old chains instead of new rope...
...PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Discrimination is forbidden in nearly every hotel, motel, restaurant and theater. Only boardinghouses with five rooms or less and private clubs are specifically excluded. The Attorney General can initiate court action for enforcement, except in 32 states that have public accommodations statutes, where he must first refer complaints to state officials...
...directive to all government agencies, John W. Macy, chairman of the commission, has urged a drastic cut in summer employment, in line with President Johnson's economy drive. Government agencies have also been forbidden to hire students whose parents are employees of the same agency...