Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Millions has a bit of the wryness, a lot of closeups-and a welcome touch of humor besides. Peter Ustinov, who co-authored the script with Ira Wallach, plays Marcus Pendleton, a waddling con man with a surefire scheme" to steal millions by zonking a mammoth computer. He opens up storefront offices all over Europe and has the rigged machine send him large monthly checks. After seeding millions away all over the Continent, Marcus settles down to a life of financial bliss with his scatterbrained secretary (Maggie Smith) who imperils the whole operation by accidentally discovering large amounts of foreign...
...Blough, Bethlehem's Edmund Martin, Columbia Broadcasting's William S. Paley, President Orville Beal of Prudential Insurance, and Texaco Chairman Howard Rambin Jr. Among the foreign bankers: Director Otmar Emminger of West Germany's Deutsche Bundesbank, Governor Louis Rasminsky of the Bank of Canada, Vice Chairman Marcus Wallenberg of the powerful Stockholms Enskilda Bank...
...Pieces. The most disaffected of the McCarthyites cast themselves in the role of both punisher and redeemer. U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Donald Kalish, a leader of Los Angeles' Peace Action Council, insists that a Humphrey defeat "must be resounding" so that Democrats will know better next time. Anne Marcus, executive director of Robert (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn's Dissenting Democrats, says more harshly that the party "should be destroyed." In their dream, these apostles of apocalypse see themselves picking up the pieces after the disaster and building a new party...
...farthest-out extremists halfway, zeroed in on two grievous weaknesses that beset black moderates: the lack of involvement in the slums by middle-class Negroes and deep-seated white racism. To Young, Alabama's Segregationist George Wallace "is as American as cherry pie." Replied Merchant Stanley Marcus, head of the famed Dallas Nieman-Marcus store: "We must have a deep commitment by a vast majority of the white citizens of this country that this is their problem." And when twoscore ghetto youngsters invaded a league meeting, grabbing a microphone, Young hearkened patiently to their demands. "These are people...
...goal. An all-male jury pronounced Spock, 65, guilty of conspiring to counsel and abet young men in evading the draft. Also found guilty: Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 44, Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber, 23, and Writer Mitchell Goodman, 44. The fifth member of "the Boston Five," Marcus Raskin, 34, a former White House disarmament aide, was acquitted...