Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanna-Barbera animated-cartoon special. Sammy Davis Jr. provides the voice of the Cheshire cat, Zsa Zsa Gabor that of the Queen of Hearts, Bill Dana the White Knight, and the late Hedda Hopper Madame Hatter...
...Under the expert tutelage of Director Sidney Lumet, eight captivating young actresses rediscover the Roosevelt era in an irresistible drama based on Mary McCarthy's bitchy, college-bred bestseller about what happened to Vassar's class of '33 after commencement day. Joan Hackett, Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight and Joanna Pettet are the most active alumnae...
Frances G. Knight, head of the State Department's passport office, has decided only one error was committed in asking our Paris and Moscow embassies to keep tabs on H. Stuart Hughes--giving the story to the New York Times...
...Miss Knight has missed the point. The Hughes directive was an unpardonable extension of the government's investigative powers, and not--even according to the passport office--an isolated incident. The directive cited Hughes's testimony at a 1961 hearing on behalf of the late Robert A. Soblen, who had been convicted of espionage, as evidence of Hughes's "pro-Communist leanings." But Hughes testified only as an expert witness on OSS procedures during the war, saying that Soblen could not have had "access to information on highly secret weapons...
...Miss Knight, however, regards anything less than complete cooperation with the FBI as one manifestation of "Schwartzism," a phenomenon she named after Abba P. Schwartz, former director of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, a proponent of more liberal passport policies, resigned three weeks ago after he got wind of a Knight-encouraged and Rusk-approved plan to abolish his bureau. And now that he has been phased out of the State Department, a little creeping "Schwartzism" might be a fitting legacy...