Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman Congressman from California, Democrat John Emerson Moss Jr. sought some information from the U.S. Civil Service Commission-and was turned down. A quiet but combative former businessman, Moss complained to fellow Representatives, discovered that they too were being denied routine requests for facts by federal agencies. Appalled at such self-serving censorship by a Government that supposedly serves the people, Moss determined to do something about...
That was in 1953. Last week, Moss's unremitting campaign to open bureaucratic files finally paid off. By a roll-call vote of 307 to 0, the House passed a bill that goes farther than any previous legislation toward ensuring the citizen's right to know what his Federal Government is doing...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. George Kaufman and Moss Hart's 30-year-old tour de farce is a riotous reminder that absurd may mean wacky, not world-weary, that humor, after all, may be amusing rather than bruising...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. The gifted APA repertory company puts a new wrapping on a 30-year-old comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The Sycamore family may not seem hilariously outlandish today, but it is still fondly engaging-a tender nosegay tossed to an earlier age of innocence...
...that is subject to retailoring to fit in any guest star that Feldman can conscript. The picture already has more cameos than Cartier's-Peter O'Toole popped in as a bagpiper (his fee: a case of champagne), Race Driver Stirling Moss plays a chauffeur, William Holden is chief of the CIA, Charles Boyer is head of the French Sûréte, and Huston will be Bond's boss...