Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SANDS OF THE KALAHARI. The makers of Zulu find lively if conventional excitement in the plight of five marooned men, led by Stuart Whitman, and one venturesome woman (Susannah York) who endure heat, hunger and sexual desire after a plane crash in the African desert...
...Forsaken Star has been serialized in newspapers. Work began last week on a movie based on the book, and a television series is planned. But Koreans seem to savor the book more for its lurid details of commercial love than for the insights it gives into the plight of half-castes...
Sands of the Kalahari. A hired plane crashes and burns in the wastes of South-West Africa. Out of the flaming wreckage crawl six survivors: five men and a woman. Their plight unknown, they face an ordeal by sun, sand, hunger, thirst and, as it turns out, sexual desire. Who will live? Who will die? Who will prove his strength, or weakness? And who will get the girl...
...life, he turned to study white and Negro children, along with their parents and teachers, under the heavy strains of school desegregation. He wanted to see how people managed the exertion of exchanging old ways of life for new ones. He refused to polarize his compassion, seeing the plight of white men deserted by their institutions as well as the struggle of Negroes for new ones...
Died. Dawn Powell, 67, Ohio-born author of 13 wittily satiric novels (The Golden Spur), mostly depicting the plight of the innocent provincial caught in Greenwich Village among unscrupulous publishers and predatory women; of cancer; in Manhattan...