Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nguyen Khanh was warming to the idea, and Saigon newspapers reported a reprieve in the works weeks ago. As the State Department and the Pentagon size it up, the Venezuelan F.A.L.N. knew that, figured by kidnaping a U.S. hostage it could grab credit for something that was due to happen anyway...
...happen. Last week, in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, some 519 businessmen crawled out of the woodwork and endorsed Barry Goldwater for President. Unlike the Johnson businessmen whom they view as a leech on the body politic sustaining themselves by their "vital interest in continued big government," the 519 claimed that their success was based, predictably enough, on "free enterprise...
Since Yevgeni Gabrilovich and Michail Schweitzer prepared a screenplay which sticks to the plot of the novel and happens to run two-and-a-half hours, and since I happen to be the only one I know who has read Tolstoy's novel, a discussion of plot might be in order now. But leave until last the easy stuff that's been around, as Frank Harris used to say. You should see this movie...
...Like an Auction. Other teams have taken worse drubbings, but never the Bears. "Our offense did poorly, our defense did poorly," raged Papa Bear George Halas, 69. "I apologize to the fans, and I promise-it won't happen again." Maybe not. But if the Bears or anybody else are going to stop the Colts this year, they are going to have to stop Johnny Unitas first. At 31, in his ninth pro season, Quarterback Unitas once again is demonstrating that he is the finest passer in the game, and maybe -as Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi...
...this neatly contrived suspense drama, all the surprises happen right on schedule. Some are effective, though, such as when Gina shuffles a corpse from a yacht to a Rolls-Royce to a country house. She faces each plot twist with swish and crackle, and is about to collect the millions when-but never mind. The real mystery is that anyone would pin a title like Woman of Straw on a movie starring Lollobrigida...