Word: portrayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silvie Portray, for leadership in setting up treatment centers for the mentally retarded in Belgium, and Mrs. Eloisa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo, for doing the same in Uruguay (to each, a personal $12,500 plus $25,000 to carry on her work...
Made on location in Kenya, Born Free glows with dusty golden beauty, the lion's share of it supplied by the big cats themselves. Two portray Elsa as a young adult, their identities smoothly meshed in the part, while 17 others maul major and minor roles, tearing down clotheslines, chewing seat cushions or carcasses, chasing elephants, or scaring the district commissioner (Geoffrey Keen) into fits of quietly civilized panic. The Adamsons are played by a British husband-and-wife team, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, who perform with a conviction that nearly matches their courage among lions. The result...
...Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, 56, announced that he would not run for a seventh two-year term, provided that the Democrats field a strong candidate to oppose Republican Contender Winthrop Rockefeller. Arkansans are inclined to believe that Faubus may even mean it this time. Though he likes to portray himself as a poor backwoodsman, Faubus has been embarrassed by adverse comment on his new $280,000 home and, in any case, he has good reason to fear Rockefeller, who pressed him strongly in 1964. - Lloyd Hand, 37, who resigned abruptly as Washington's Chief of Protocol (see The Administration...
Project Discovery teachers generally like the variety of films available, although they would prefer more short films, each on a narrowly specific topic, and more biographical films. Teachers at Scott Montgomery would like to see more films that do not portray "white middle-class suburban America." It would now cost other schools about $16 per pupil per year to duplicate the project's facilities, but this cost will decline as demand increases. Despite the advantages, no one expects films to become more than just another of a teacher's many tools. The teacher, says E.B.F.'s Howell...
...snippets from interviews, reflects the same kind of directness. Some volunteers speak of their failures and frustrations, of their frequent inability to produce the slightest dent on traditional village life. Others have a more optimistic tale. Above all, one receives a sense of complete candor, of an attempt portray the actuality of Peace Corps life in India...