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...monuments are "Theodore Roosevelt as no other tangible thing in this world today is," said Interior Secretary Stewart Udall as he accepted for the government. And then, with his own conservation plans in mind, Udall enlisted T.R.'s posthumous support. "The deterioration of our environment has been the paramount conservation failure of the postwar years," said Udall. "Theodore Roosevelt would not view such deterioration without alarm...
...Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with 4,000 of his finest, plus a faultless selection of his most nubile maidens for a bare-breasted scene in which the Zulu warriors on the eve of battle are given the sort of sendoff that might well cause...
...polling place." The crucial tests for Rocky will come in next year's presidential primaries; success in them should prove to Republican convention delegates that remarriage would not be fatal in November. In the final analysis, the type of campaign he wages and what he says on the paramount issues will probably be more important than his marital status...
...friendships so sorely strained by the cantankerous, indecisive ways of the defeated John Diefenbaker. "One of my most cherished dreams," said Pearson, "has long been to see a North Atlantic community linked by so many indissoluble spiritual, moral, social and economic bonds that its common life will have a paramount influence not only on the lives of its member peoples but on the hopes of all peoples for peace and human brotherhood." So saying, he flew off for a four-day visit to London, where warming winds were already blowing. Remembering the chill atmosphere surrounding the last Diefenbaker visit...
Researcher & Freedman. All this fustian unfortunately belies the actual writer inside-a hardworking, competent journeyman whose dedication to his profession is genuine. A Child Is Waiting is an original Abby Mann screenplay (actually based on an Abby Mann TV play) about retarded children. When Paramount Pictures insisted on using Hollywood kid actors instead of retarded children themselves, Mann emptied his bank account to buy back the option to the script. He wanted real retarded children to show how close to normal they are, or seem...