Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pilot who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry, was named last week to fill one of two seats in a manned orbiting laboratory. He will be the nation's first Negro astronaut. Lawrence hawked newspapers on the street as a boy, worked his way through Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and became an Air Force jet instructor and weapons-research scientist. ·The prestigious University of Chicago appointed Dr. John Hope Franklin, 52, chairman of its history department. Author-Educator Franklin holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Cornell, Cambridge, Wisconsin and California, and co-authored...
...Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen likes to kid the President that the new father's parents are a pair of staunch Republicans from Waukegan, Ill...
...Ill lay: Sir Laurence Olivier, 60, recovering in London's St. Thomas's Hospital from a mild case of pneumonia and undergoing concurrent radiological treatment for what his wife, Actress Joan Plowright, describes as a "slight" cancer of the prostate; Elizabeth Taylor, 35, hobbling on crutches in and out of Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo after a tumble aboard her rented vacation yacht Odysseia aggravated a chronic case of synovitis (knee inflammation) so badly that she may have to be operated...
...bucolic splendor of greenery, the Festival Theater of Stratford, Ont., salutes the eye like the panoplied summer court of a king. The king, of course, is Shakespeare, and the irony is that Stratford serves him rather ill in its current productions of Richard III and The Merry Wives of Windsor. One difficulty with cultural outposts of this sort is that audiences begin to equate their dutifulness with pleasure, and actors and directors tend to become bureaucratic keepers of tinier and tinier dramatic flames. That may be why the Stratford players perform best in a 19th century provincial satire, The Government...
Woman Times Seven is an ill-advised attempt to improve upon the mathematical formula of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In that film, Sophia Loren played three women; in this one, Shirley MacLaine plays seven. Both movies employed the same director (Vittorio De Sica) and scenarist (Cesare Zavattini), inviting an unfortunate comparison. Shirley is no Sophia, although even Loren would have had trouble with these amateurish anecdotes...