Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXODUS. Director Otto Preminger and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo have reduced a fatty mess of prose by Leon Uris to a lean, keen saga that keeps the audience on seat's edge as ten name players and 45,000 extras pseudohistorically re-enact the founding of Israel...
...timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
Exodus (Preminger; United Artists) seems certain to become one of the most productive mints ever installed behind a marquee. Otto Preminger's much-flacked-about film version of Leon Uris' forest-felling novel-it lasted 80 weeks on the bestseller lists and moved almost 4,000,000 copies-has all the production values expected in an epic: full color, wide screen, 45,000 extras, ten name players (Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer). What's more, it got these advantages...
...game's basic attraction is that any number may play, under any rules at all, and without much risk of getting seriously hurt. In Central Park, touch "gridirons" are often marked off with nothing more than coats discarded by the likes of New York Post Columnist Leon ard Lyons, who has lured such celebritie as the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche and TV Phil Silvers into games with his four sons One-hand touch usually serves for tyros two-hand touch below the waist for the more experienced. Wearying of the inevitable arguments about touches or misses, the experts...
...Ashby program is "not in competition" with plans such as the one put forth recently by Leon D. Bramson, instructor of Social Relations, Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of the International Student Office, and Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., instructor in Government, Keppel said...