Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skinny Years. The pursuit of perfection began at the age of five when Heston played his first role in the one-room schoolhouse he attended in northern Michigan. At Northwestern University, he worked with Classmates Patricia Neal and Ralph Meeker, met another hopeful actress, Lydia Clarke, who has been his wife for 22 years. After some skinny years in Manhattan, he got a supporting role in Katharine Cornell's Antony and Cleopatra ("Miss Cornell is a tall woman and likes to have tall actors around"). From there, it was roles in TV and a lead in his first film...
...sitting in the middle of the New York Philharmonic cello section. Indeed, the sound is so all-encompassing that, with the windows closed and the volume turned up to peak levels, it is difficult to tell if the horns are playing 1812 Overture or "Look out!" Though Safety Crusader Ralph Nader labels the tapes as "Just another step toward insulating the driver completely from the outside," the National Safety Council believes that stereo played at a normal volume is a tonic since "it helps keep the driver alert...
General Motors' sales have been badly hurt by the furor over auto safety. The special target of Author Ralph Nader (Unsafe at Any Speed) and other industry critics has been G.M.'s sporty little rear-engine Corvair. The 1960-63 models of the car had an axle design that was criticized for causing the rear wheels to "tuck under," thereby enhancing the possibility of rolls and skids. Partly due to such publicity, Corvair sales so far this year have been half those for the same period...
Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator who last November came within 2,000 votes of unseating Locher, had an entirely different insight. "Ralph can't comprehend the problem," Stokes said. "He thinks that because he doesn't have his hand in the cash box he's doing a good job. My campaign was for the people in Hough a symbol of hope, a chance to get at least a fair shake. Now they riot because they have no hope and nothing to lose...
...Lift from Poverty. Partly because of such handicaps, some Canadians favor economic union with the U.S. Denouncing "those who talk narrow economic nationalism," Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher recently praised U.S. capital for lifting his province from poverty to prosperity. In British Columbia, Commerce Minister Ralph Loffmark urged an end to all tariffs between the two nations. "I don't think political domination would result," he said, "but even if it did, it wouldn't be the end of the world...