Word: frans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orator who in office "turned out to be not a spiritual leader at all, but a renegade. He interpreted the people's splendid acclaim of him as adequate proof of his greatness." Diefenbaker's administrative skills were those "of a backwoods barrister," says Newman, describing weeks of fran tic search by Diefenbaker's staff for a letter from President Eisenhower - a hunt that ended when Diefenbaker found the letter under his own bed. In Cabinet meetings, says Newman, Diefenbaker acted the tyrant, treating his colleagues like a "delinquent scout troop," refusing to allow smoking and demanding unanimity...
When a leggy brunette named Joan Kinney moved west from Chicago last year, she had nothing more adventurous in mind than some postgraduate courses in creative writing at San Fran cisco State College. But Joan soon found something far more exciting. To day, at 25, she publishes the Livermore, Calif., Independent, a weekly newspaper that after only two months in print is already making money. Says Miss Kinney with some surprise: "We've been rather a shocking success...
...tells a wicked tale wrought from François Mauriac's 1927 novel Thérèse Desqueyroux and tells it in old-fashioned cinematic style. It is literate, formal, filmed with impeccable taste. It captures the dark spirit of Mauriac's novel almost too perfectly. Best of all, in Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) it has a vivid Thérèse, that young woman so desperate to escape "the slow, sure, horrible suffocation of provincial life" that she poisons her husband...
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). David Wayne narrates The Princess of the Moon, by Fran Toor...
...disaster. Glaring klieg lights wrecked the party mood. Camera cables crisscrossed the floor, making dancing treacherous. And faulty equipment on the six cameras made a hack of the schedule. The soup and salad courses never got out of the kitchen, and the entertainment by such as Jacqueline François and Frank Sinatra Jr. finally ended at 5:15 a.m., five hours late. By that time hardly anyone was left. Rose didn't last through dessert...