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...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. The full house includes Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and a couple of other aces in a mock-heroic poker comedy...
Though Mayor Locher (rhymes with poker) announced last year that he saw "no impending furor" in his city, a U.S. Civil Rights Commission investigation there last April convinced at least one commissioner, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, that conditions in Hough were "the worst I have seen." After the commission urged city officials to show "a more positive attitude" toward Cleveland's Negroes, Mayor Locher's response was to appoint a committee to report on the commission's report...
...year job. Tillinghast carefully budgets time for such morale-boosting chores as awarding 20-year pins to employees. With his wife Lisette, he lives in a 22-room Georgian house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y., golfs (badly), shoots clay pigeons (much better), occasionally plays high-stakes poker (superbly). Though little in his background prepared him for the airline business, Tillinghast holds: "Special knowledge is a lot less important than a keen mind." That...
...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards head the cast of a rowdy indoor western about a high-stakes poker session. Only a trick ending flaws Director Fielder Cook's shrewd blending of hot hands and ham instincts...
Barzel's propositions were merely an attempt to sweeten the pot for the Russians in their poker-face view of the European future. Yet troop presence remains at the very heart of Europe's past history and future development. Both of the world's two great powers have every reason to want their soldiers out of the frigid zones of occupation. In Paris last March, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin announced: "The War saw Pact nations will either reduce their military forces or even abolish them if a corresponding move is undertaken by the NATO allies in West...