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...card duel between the two hot-handed pros generates all the expected tension, and Director Norman Jewison exploits it fully. The grim-to-garish background seems authentic. The jargon sounds right. And McQueen v. Robinson put on a bristling good show whenever they interrupt their marathon long enough for a few words of subtly guarded small talk-about health, luck, woman trouble, anything that might make an opponent's mind wander...
Unprovoked Violence. A special four-judge panel quickly turned Flowers down. "If we were to interrupt the trial of the Wilkins case to review the rulings here under consideration," said the court, "we would establish a precedent that would in the future operate to impede the progress of all criminal trials." Very carefully, the Alabama judges avoided any ruling on the Alabama jury system...
...illuminate the Pope, and a bubble-top covering (non-bulletproof) in case of rain. More than 75 television cameras and 500 personnel were assigned to give the visit the most intensive TV exposure ever concentrated on a single event. The three major networks swallowed hard and promised not to interrupt their coverage with commercials, a sacrifice of some $3,000,000 in revenue...
...Cold. Yet there were times when the Senate seemed to be considering nothing more momentous than a proposal to plant petunias on the Capitol mall. Rarely were more than a few dozen Senators on hand to take part in the debate. Others strolled in occasionally from the cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After four days...
Bulletins in general, Hagerty complained, are overdone: "We are at war in Viet Nam, and the international situation is serious but not disastrous. Radio and television reach every citizen of our nation; and when we interrupt regularly scheduled programs with a bulletin, the collective hearts of all our people must miss a few beats until they hear the bulletin. Unless it is a matter of vital importance, aren't we running the risk of crying wolf too many times, with the resultant loss of public confidence...