Word: nil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the ranks of "The Team," has disappeared almost totally after the President's heart attack. Since September, the Soviets have smiled their way through Asia and have courted, in a dangerously successful manner, neutrals from Yugoslavia to Cambodia. Imaginative responses from Washington to new Soviet techniques have been nil. In fact, the Middle Eastern muddle is just the latest and best instance of a policy that evidently evolved while the policy-makers were losing drinks at shuffleboard in the Bahamas. Even Senator George, that most agreeable Democrat, has now stated flatly that the President's leadership is simply...
...going on should open this stretch to traffic by May 1. At the other end of the Costa Rican sector, after a breathtaking mountain drive offering glimpses of two oceans, the highway dwindles into nothing more than 134 miles of lines on a surveyor's map. Current construction: nil...
While this problem is being resolved there is a good deal of brawling, shooting out of candles, slapping up of Miss Darcel, and smiling by Lancaster--all designed to keep the viewer happy. Since the moral and psychological implications of the picture are almost nil, there are very few of those annoying expository speeches. When they occur they are usually couched in reference to a paragon of ruthlessness named Acc Hanna, whom Lancaster shot to death long before the start of the movie in return for various favors...
However wrong, or right, these men may be, the present effect of the court ruling in the Deep South is nil-save for the mental gymnastic it has caused politicians charged by their white fellow Southerners with preventing racial mingling. Negro children are still attending their same old schools; too aften housed in shamefully shabby buildings. The Southern white school kids, and most college students, are back in their all-white institutions again this fall. The same studied ignorance of the historic decision is being practiced on almost every level of racial contact. There are, of course, exceptions, but these...
Jordan has brought this team along slowly--too slowly, some have said. But early in the season it became obvious that he was shooting for the Big Three title, and his chances for it, seemingly nil in October, have grown to the stage where he is theoretically only five points away from it, according to the early bookie line...