Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
...COLD BLOOD. Richard Brooks has followed Truman Capote's harrowing anatomization of a multiple murder in Kansas with remarkable fidelity, and the performances of the unknown actors who portray the killers (Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock, Robert Blake as Perry Smith) lift the film to near brilliance...
...party's Prussian-born leader, pushes the idea that Germany should get back all the land that it lost after World War II, rejects the notion of German war guilt and wants the U.S. to get out of Europe. He calls for a massive "moral regeneration" to lift Germany to what he considers its rightful place in the world. From a dingy set of offices above a restaurant in Hanover, Von Thadden runs a slickly professional organization that has its own newspaper and 470 chapters throughout West Germany...
...economy of Lebanon, battered by a loss of tourist business as a result of the Arab-Israeli war, got a welcome lift on the home front last week. After a 15-month shutdown in the wake of the biggest banking scandal in Lebanese history, Intra Bank reopened its doors for business. The reopening quickly drew a crowd so large that police had to be called to control it. Not surprisingly, the throng consisted mainly of Intra Bank customers anxious to get their savings out rather than to put more Lebanese pounds...
...ERNIE LADD, 29, and Buck Buchanan, 27, are quite a pair. Right Tackle Ladd is 6 ft. 9 in. and 315 Ibs.; Left Tackle Buchanan stands 6 ft. 7 in. and 287 Ibs. Traded to the Chiefs by the Houston Oilers earlier this season, Ladd can dead-lift 700 Ibs., and "when he hits you," says Guard Charlie Long of the Boston Patriots, "he crosses your eyes." Buchanan is no less brutal, but "he doesn't rely totally on power," says Long. "He has a lot of tricks he tries to work...