Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress, for many reasons, was not about to take such initiative. Republican Leo Allen of Illinois voiced one sentiment: "My chief reason for being opposed to the bill is that it will cost about $2.4 billion."' Another sentiment: the integration-suspicious feelings of North Carolina Democrat Graham Barden: "There must be something influencing this drastic bill other than the construction of school buildings.'' New York Republican Stuyvesant Wainwright (who eventually voted against the bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby...
Director and Co-Writer Leo McCarey told this tremulous tale once before in 1939 (Charles Boyer v. Irene Dunne). On this familiar old heart-wrenching ground, Cinemanipulator McCarey, whose heart is as big as a whale's, carefully swings the plot pendulum-like between gladness and sadness. Cary and Deborah agree to rid themselves of their previous encumbrances, make a date to meet again after six months devoted to finding themselves (she was once a singer; he painted). But on the day of their reunion, a screech of brakes is heard offscreen, and next thing Deborah is a cripple...
...Verne's descriptions: "titanic crabs pointed like cannon on their carriages"; "petrified bushes . . . scattered in grimacing zigzags." But no matter how exorbitant their "world," Verne's characters remain strictly human, sternly Victorian. When Verne died, it was not science that did him homage. It was Pope Leo XIII who applauded the purity and moral and spiritual value of the old S.F. master's 80-odd volumes...
...LEO TOCH Flushing...
...country of its size, Hungary has an extraordinary record for providing the U.S. with first-rank scientist immigrants. Leo Szilard (key atom-bomb physicist), Edward Teller ("Father of the H-bomb") and the late great Mathematician John von Neumann (an Atomic Energy commissioner) were all Hungarian-born. So when refugees began streaming out of rebellious Hungary last year, the National Academy of Sciences set up an office at Camp Kilmer, N.J. and sent an expeditionary force to Austria to help educated Hungarians find jobs...