Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the Nationalist majority easily (91-48) overrode the opposition United Party's no-confidence motion. But the Nationalists are in serious disarray. Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom has been ill for months with a heart ailment, and a doctor's report last week made it seem unlikely he could ever serve again. With new elections scheduled for April, the scramble for National Party power is likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists...
Councilor Alfred Vellucci, who claimed that some of his relatives and friends have been molested by the mysterious assailant, gained approval of a motion to place all the city's inactive policemen and 15 prowl cars on night duty "until such time as The Prowler has been apprehended...
...rebuttal, DeGuglielmo said he had not referred to a crime wave, but merely to a letdown in law enforcement. He criticized Sullivan, whose motion for 15 more policemen had just been passed and who now said the police could adequately handle the situation. "That's the kind of reasoning I have to put up with in this Council," he said...
After conscientiously mulling over 1957's output of movies, the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures-the weightiest U.S. cinematic arbiters-announced their "best" choices, found themselves agreeing more than usual. Both groups marked The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) as the year's finest U.S.-produced film, Bridge's Alec Guinness and David Lean as best actor and director. Other decisions were split. Best actress: Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Critics), Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (Board). Best foreign movie: Gervaise...
Proving, as usual, that quality does not necessarily jingle cash registers, Motion Picture Herald posted the results of its poll of some 10,000 U.S. and Canadian theater owners. Their selection of the top ten box-office pullers featured male dreamboats of all ages, indicated that teen-agers are calling the moviegoing public's tune, with nary a cinemactress in the top ten for the first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors...