Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghetto; together, they lost 87 relatives to the Nazis. Since the war's end, he has carried on his search, helped by cash contributions from many parts of the world. In his new book, The Murderers Among Us (to be published this month in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill), Wiesenthal meticulously documents the fevers and frustrations of hunting Nazis. His search for Stangl followed much the same painstaking process that Wiesenthal had earlier used to help track Adolf Eichmann and Karl Silberbauer, the captor of Anne Frank...
...curfew over most of the country, and has enacted a tough anti-Communist law that gives the security police and the courts wide leeway in dealing with real or imagined subversives. One young writer who published a blistering allegory of American influence in Korea, called The Dung Hill, is being tried under the law because his short story was picked up and reprinted in North Korea...
...book called The Comprehensive High School (McGraw-Hill; $3.95) Conant points out that some states have already assumed a big share of the financial burden. Nonetheless, he adds, "there are gross inequalities within a state as well as between states." Some school districts get as much as two-thirds of their support from state aid; others get as little as 6%. The disparity frequently bears no relation to need. Conant proposes that costs be spread statewide to correct local inequities. He would equalize opportunity nationally by returning part of federal income taxes to the states for school use "as each...
...creative man with Albert Lasker's Lord & Thomas agency, Foote handled the American Tobacco Co. account, led the group-think that produced such slogans as "Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War." He was one of the few who got along with irascible Cigarette Magnate George Washington Hill, as a result rose to vice president. In the 1947 movie, The Hucksters, in which Sydney Greenstreet represented Hill, suave Adolphe Menjou was supposed to be Foote, bleeding ulcerwise and beaming sycophantwise as Greenstreet spat on a conference table. "I don't think I could impersonate Mr. Menjou very well...
Director James Hill does what he can to keep this misfortune cookie from crumbling, but the film's main failing is the drawback to most Oriental fare. Two hours afterward, the viewer is likely to be hungry for another movie...