Word: gauntness
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Though the Tories may not need Sir Alec now, they owe the former 14th Earl of Home, who gave up his title to become Prime Minister when Harold Macmillan stepped down, a large debt. The gaunt, gracious aristocrat was hardly a public figure when he moved from the foreign secretaryship to No. 10 Downing Street. He inherited a party embarrassed by the Profumo-Keeler scandal and racked by dissension over his own selection. After nearly 13 years in power, the Tories were visibly tired and the public seemed overwhelmingly ready for a switch to Labor. Sir Alec managed to rally...
When Algeria's shadowy new regime finally found its voice last week, foreigners and Algerians alike could hardly believe their ears. Colonel Houari Boumedienne, the gaunt, fiery-eyed army commander who ousted Ahmed ben Bella last month, left no doubt of his aims or of his determination to achieve them. "Algeria," he proclaimed, "just wants to be Algeria...
...exhorting his comrades in rah-team dialogue to risk their necks for art: "It's our national heritage-the glory of France!" To make Lancaster's accent less obtrusive, the voices of Michel Simon and other French conspirators are poorly dubbed into working-class Americanese. Scofield, a gaunt attention-getter in accented English, lends his conventional role some force. Jeanne Moreau, as the hardheaded innkeeper who helps Lancaster to relax between trains, has little to do and does it deftly...
...Frei. Chile is one of the best-educated nations in Latin America, and its voters, with a long tradition of constitutional rule, tend to listen to the issues. There is a rising middle class, weary of inflation and do-nothing government. More essentially, it is Frei himself. Tall and gaunt, he is disarmingly unpretentious, a man who speaks but does not orate. What he says comes across with precision and a sure dedication- and that is apparently what Chileans want. "Few in Chile today," says one diplomat, "can argue with such a clear recognition of what the problems are, topped...
Died. Aubrey Williams, 74, first and only boss of F.D.R.'s National Youth Administration, a gaunt, Alabama-born liberal who helped organize the NYA in 1933 to help Depression youngsters escape from "the dilemma of no experience, no job; no job, no experience," over the next ten years built it into a $50 million-a-year agency providing vocational training for youths from 16 to 25, an idea resurrected last year as the Job Corps by one of his old state directors, Lyndon B. Johnson; of intestinal cancer; in Washington...