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...role of Zhivago, Lean first thought of his Lawrence, Peter O'Toole, then, to add "a certain foreignness," he decided on Egyptian-born Omar Sharif (whose hair was thatched over and his eyes slightly pulled back to give him a vaguely Tartar gaze). For subsidiary roles, Lean picked two knights, Sir Alec Guinness as Zhivago's brother (making Guinness' fifth picture with Lean, beginning with Great Expectations) and Sir Ralph Richardson, who plays Tonya's father, with Siobhan McKenna as Tonya's mother. To add further strength to the cast, Lean tapped Rita Tushingham...
...case has significance far beyond the possible loss of Clorox's nearly $40 million in annual sales. Its management has relied on acquisitions and such selling devices as giveaways and selective price cuts to keep P. & G. growing. Under the FTC's steady gaze, the company has already had to compete less aggressively and slow down its acquisition of new companies. The results are showing up in earnings: in 1960, before the FTC order, profits rose 20%; in 1964 they rose 13%; last year, earnings before taxes actually declined. Says President Howard J. Morgens...
Harvard's fullbacks woke up in the second period and Bowditch made several great saves to hold Yale scoreless. But a lackadaisical offense did little more than gaze from afar at the Yale net. Before Harvard decided to start trying to beat Yale to the ball, Kerry had scored once more...
...never much of a moneymaker," is to bemean the virtues that built this great country. Unprivileged by today's standards, Henry worked hard at the jobs available to him, saved when he could, guided his sons masterfully, and today looks at every man with a level gaze. As an employee of Thiokol Chemical Corporation, he makes us proud of him and proud of his sons...
...been written without one. If there are no characters for whom we can feel more than a mild intellectual sympathy, well, good novels have lacked them. But some of the characters in The Looking Glass War seem to have no existence except as objects of Le Carre's pitiless gaze, and that is a sign of trouble...