Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advantages for Infants. Until a few years ago, children born with such deformities were allowed to reach full growth before any major corrective measures were taken, but now doctors at Shriners and a score of other pioneering hospitals are proceeding differently. Says Dr. Leon M. Kruger, 40, who heads the clinic for crippled children in Springfield: "As soon as a child feels an inclination to stand, we feel he is ready for prosthetics...
...policy, and he hoped that acrimonious debate could be avoided. Last week President Johnson joined Heller and Economic Advisers John Lewis and Gardner Ackley in the Oval Room to welcome the four past chairmen: Republicans Arthur Burns and Raymond Saulnier, who were Dwight Eisenhower's men, and Democrats Leon Keyserling and Edwin Nourse, who worked under Harry Truman...
...this may suggest why the film that first established him was called Breathless. Since then he has played all kinds of roles-an inspiring priest in Leon Morin, Pretre, an introverted teacher in Two Women-but he has become the No. 1 box office draw in France be cause the indelible Breathless image lingers on. He feels that he does not resemble that public image of himself-or so he says over cognac and smoke, slouching in a cafe chair, his socks sagging over broken shoelaces, his shirt open to the waist, arms dangling to the floor, where his knuckles...
ARMAGEDDON by Leon Uris. 632 pages. Doubleday...
...Leon Uris' new novel is the predictable end product of an interior monologue just like that. And it must be conceded that Uris, who once publicly pronounced himself "the most outstanding U.S. writer of today," has succeeded astonishingly in his aim: into this big bad book he has packed away every conceivable stock figure, from the nice Russian officer (Igor) trapped by the system, to the beautiful whore (Hilde) who reforms and then softens the hard heart of the dashing American pilot (Scott, what else...