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...third period, Thomson started the ball rolling with another long drive. Ikauniks and Gerry Jorgenson began pushing the puck and assorted Ell defenders around, and eventually Ikauniks scored at 6:31. This time the Garden ice looked like a graveyard, with Nelson and defenseman Wyllys Terry stretched out flat...
...proof of a voter's literacy, now backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen as well, faced its first legislative test-and failed. The backers of the bill hoped to avoid sending their measure to the Judiciary Committee, which, under Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, has been a graveyard for civil rights legislation. They hoped instead to have it referred to Mansfield's Senate Rules Committee. But Vice President Lyndon Johnson, advised by the Senate parliamentarian, ruled that it had to go to Judiciary. The setback will be only temporary, Mansfield promised. If the Judiciary Committee does...
...Hour cannot forgo a graveyard scene, and afterward viewers are treated to another study of the Hepburn chin, as she walks down the obligatory poplar-lined pathway toward Understanding Fiancé Garner (who had deserted briefly under fire). There is no way for viewers to ignore the implied happy ending (the Broadway version ended grimly), for a great surge of it's-really-all-right music spills into the theater. It is really not all right; it is not all right...
...Vegas, where casino doors never close and show business acts are the loss leaders for the gaming tables, once had a problem with its graveyard shift. Predictably, there would be a lone high roller whose eyelids seemed to be held open by pieces of red pimiento; but the little money was creeping off to bed, and the problem was how to keep it awake...
...himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past...