Word: kerrs
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David Niven and Orson Welles, Ursula Andress and Deborah Kerr, William Holden and George Raft, John Huston, Charles Boyer, Joana Pettet, Daliah Lauri, and in furtive appearances, Peter O'Toole and Jean Paul Belmondo, round out Casino Royale's company. Niven takes everything very very seriously, and has made of Sir James a proud, sensitive, prudish, retired spy in anything but the Ian Fleming tradition. He stutters too, at the start, but as if realizing it's not funny, Niven gives up this device a third of the way into the picture. Orson Welles, given one of the most thankless...
...Angeles Valley College and recent candidate for the state legislature: "Who are the judges who participate in legal lynchings? The appointees of flaming liberals like President Kennedy. Who perpetuates racism? The unions. Who votes for war? The good liberal Congressmen. Who perpetuates alienation? The liberal administrators like Clark Kerr. The liberals are gutless, pusillanimous and totally lacking in sincerity." He adds: "Listening to them is like being beaten to death with a warm sponge...
...capability to overcome error," he said. Displaying a flash of the evangelical fervor that has characterized his six-year reign as NASA's boss-a job that the North Carolina born lawyer owed to his solid friendships with Lyndon Johnson and Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr- Webb declared: "If any man in this room asks for whom the Apollo bell tolls, it tolls for him and me, as well as for Grissom, White and Chaffee. It tolls for every astronaut test pilot who will lose his life in the space-simulated vacuum of a test chamber...
...following is excerpted from an address by Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California, which was given at a conference on "Students and Politics" at San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 27-31, 1967. Harvard was one of the sponsors of the conference. --editor's note.) Clark Kerr...
...Kerr believes that student attitudes should sooner or later come to reflect what he feels is the "more conservative direction" of U.S. society as a whole. Moreover, "the basic fact is that the U.S. is not a country given to revolts." While militant protests will not disappear tomorrow-"it is more likely that there will be a long-drawn-out chorus of whimpers"-Kerr believes that political activism on campus may eventually take on a more peaceable form. "The sit-in," he concludes, "will gradually join the coonskin coat as an interesting symbol of a student age retreating into history...