Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMEDIANS. Graham Greeneland lies somewhere between Purgatory and Hell, and in this particular film, it is in Haiti, where a skilled cast (including Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness...
...which may partially explain the extraordinary availability of important guests, who seem as eager as Greenwood to show their faces on TV. Last week's was Urban League Director Whitney Young; before that the program offered Bayard Rustin, Senators Charles Percy and Wayne Morse, Billy Graham and Walter Heller. Next week Greenwood has filming sessions scheduled with Bobby Kennedy, Jack Benny and Conrad Hilton. For next month, when Greenwood goes to Europe, he has talks arranged with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and, pending approval of the questions, Charles de Gaulle...
...Comedian Garry Moore, 52, recuperating in Bermuda's King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after a "very mild heart attack" Evangelist Billy Graham, 49, recovering at West Virginia's Greenbrier hotel from a moderate case of virus pneumonia; New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, 58, resting at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Medical Center after surgical removal of a cataract in his left eye; Comedian Bert Lahr, 72, rallying at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from severe pneumonia that put him in a coma; Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan, 56, also convalescing at Columbia...
...more in tune with the war-wounded countryside. Both the Saigon government and U.S. officials have been concerned that the honky-tonk establishments (bearing such names as Eve, Blue Angel and the Bunny Club) are making tawdry neon jungles of such once elegant neighborhoods as the Rue Catinat of Graham Greene's The Quiet American. In March of 1966, General William Westmoreland, aware that the off-duty activities of U.S. troops were beginning to alienate sensitive Vietnamese, initiated Operation Moose (Move Out of Saigon Expeditiously), a realistic attempt to deal with the problem by reducing the American presence...
...studying art at Los Angeles City College and working as an office boy for $8 per week, which, together with the small sums his mother earned by baking pastries at home, enabled them to eke out a living. Then one night he happened in on a performance of Martha Graham's modern-dance company. "It had such a tremendous impact on me that it changed my life," he says. An instant convert, he dropped art, began studying with Lester Horton ("a kind of West Coast Martha Graham"), and danced his way through the 1940s as a member of Horton...