Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honk for Service. Whether fancy or plain, the mechanics of most drive-in churches are similar. Ushers distribute printed hymns as the cars roll in, help plug in speakers, take car-to-car collections during the service or request worshipers to place donations in a bin on the way out. Some drive-ins also pass out car-to-car wafers and grape juice for Communion. At many drive-in churches, worshipers roll down their windows and sing hymns together, get out of their cars after services for coffee and doughnuts at the snack bar. Some pastors try to talk briefly...
...public TV's best programs is a tough, fair-minded National Educational Television series called Your Dollar's Worth. Screened in different cities at different times, it specializes in consumer reports without sensationalizing the findings. With the help of a hard-digging staff, Executive Producer Harry McCarthy has examined misleading drug and gasoline advertising, exposed crooked TV repairmen and loan sharks, educated viewers on how to buy a used car or a house. Last week the program launched its second season of monthly reports. The first topic was the cosmetics trade...
...vegetable himself; revolted by the wretched beggars and savage beatings, he escapes to the safety of the U.S. Burton envies the American's innocence, but he has been affected and infected by Ford's passion to obliterate evil. Thus, when Guinness flees the police and appeals for help, Burton cannot refuse. "I like you," he says, surprised-"God knows why." Next morning the Tontons offer Burton $2,000 and freedom to reveal the whereabouts of his colleague. The weary, dreary reply is inevitable: "Inflation is everywhere. It used to be 30 pieces of silver." Once he has refused...
Still, Audrey Hepburn's honest, posture-free performance helps to suspend the audience's disbelief. She is immensely aided by the heavies: Jack Weston, Richard Crenna, and Alan Arkin playing his first straight roles-triple portrayals of a Peter Lorre-like psychopathic killer, a white-haired father and his smarmy son. With virtuosity, Hepburn and Arkin collaborate to revive an old theme-The-Helpless-Girl-Against-the-Odds-that has been out of fashion since Dorothy McGuire and Barbara Stanwyck screamed for help in The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. If Hollywood is still counting money...
...freshman meet, Harvard's Dave Pottetti will seek to finish the regular season undefeated, with the help of rapidly improving Tom Spangler, the Yardlings have lost only once--to Northeasthern--and they avenged that defeat in their GBC victory Tuesday...