Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BYRON JAN IS: RACHMANINOFF'S CONCERTO NO. 2 and TCHAIKOVSKY'S CONCERTO NO. 1 (Mercury). With a matinee idol's face and a technique that suggests a man breathing on filaments of silk rather than pounding a piano, Janis stands up to his Billboard ratings with these favorites. His gift for phrasing is remarkable and very much his own, and Antal Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra balance his sweetness with spirited orchestral reading...
...over three years-$140 million less than a Senate version-as an incentive to states to tighten safety codes and to improve driver training, testing and inspection of vehicles and highway design. The House also decreed that states that do not set up an approved road-safety program by Jan. 1, 1968 will forfeit 10% of the federal aid that they receive for highways under other laws...
...Khartoum, Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone sent Gordon (Charlton Heston) and one aide to rescue it. Gordon organized Khartoum for a 317-day defense against the dervishes of Mohammed Ahmed (Sir Laurence Olivier), who called himself the Mahdi, meaning "the Expected One." Khartoum finally fell on Jan. 26, 1885. Gordon, who had rejected the Mahdi's offer of safe passage out, died with a dervish's spear in his chest...
...Twentieth Century, whose 80-man crew now often outnumbers passengers, approached last week when New York Central President Alfred E. Perlman announced plans to abandon, starting Jan. 1, all passenger routes of over 200 miles...
Czechoslovakia is the latest country to have splashed up a new wave of fresh, original films by a coterie of talented directors and writers. "It's not a wave, it's a flood," proudly says Jan Kadar, whose The Shop on Main Street (co-directed by Elmar Klos) won this year's Oscar as the best foreign film. Within the past three weeks, two other Czech films have opened in Manhattan, and an astonishing 55 more have been acquired for U.S. distribution in the near future. Already festooned with garlands of laurels from European competitions, Milos Forman...