Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mock-minatory farewell address to London's Pilgrims Society, Britain's new Ambassador to the U.S., jolly, Cambridge-educated Sir Patrick Dean, 56, noted that the only other Cantabrigian to have represented the Crown in Washington was Sir Edward Thornton, who clung to the post for 14 years (1867-81), longer than any other British diplomat. Said Sir Patrick: "You have been warned...
Died. Dr. Joseph Cecil Patrick, 72, a chemist who, while searching for a cheap antifreeze in 1923, stumbled on the formula for Thiokol, first U.S.-developed synthetic rubber, which has since become an indispensable ingredient of solid rocket fuel; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...women appeared in the emergency room of St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Mont., one afternoon early last summer and insisted that they had been poisoned by drinking beer. The doctors were doubtful, but there was no denying that the patients' faces were flushed, their hearts were racing, and they were vomiting. They complained of a metallic taste in their mouths, and of pins-and-needles sensations in their feet, legs and hands (which they said felt swollen, although they looked normal...
...delivers a bedrock performance that provides anchorage for the shipshape supporting cast. Pick of the lot is Nurse Patricia Neal, who enlivens Wayne's hours ashore with straightforward passion. Wayne woos his long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations war mounted by a former Congressman (Patrick O'Neal) and an incompetent admiral (Dana Andrews), then has to send the boy on a fateful attack. Big, tough decisions are made and carried out by such luminaries as Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Stanley Holloway and Henry Fonda...
Operation Crossbow, shifting to the European front, distorts the facts about an actual wartime crisis to fit a ludicrous tale of espionage. At the outset, the film seeks to establish its authenticity by popping in at 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Churchill (Patrick Wymark) asks Duncan Sandys (Richard Johnson) to head Operation Crossbow, an Anglo-American unit assigned to pinpoint and destroy Germany's V-1 buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill...