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Maggie's most righteous indignation (and her finest hour in public life) was reserved for the late Joe McCarthy, in her famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech. It was the first major address of Freshman Smith, and the first outcry in the Senate against McCarthy's campaign of smear and innuendo. While scowling Joe McCarthy listened from a nearby desk, Maggie denounced him for debasing the Senate "to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination, sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity ... I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory...
...roll music, and Africans went on shopping sprees for Elvis Presley records. Athletes harried Olympic officials with fake phone calls about the imminent arrival of a gift of crocodiles from Ghana. Someone started the rumor that a British girl athlete was really a boy, thereby brought a flush of righteous royal red to the British press...
Minor Matter. At the trial, mothers came-or were pushed-forward with self-righteous complaints about the corruption of their daughters. Newsmen learned that there had been striptease parties, involving young girls and boys, at the Villa Butard, a onetime royal hunting lodge that was Le Troquer's official out-of-town residence as president of the National Assembly. Some mothers admitted escorting their daughters to Villa Butard and to other addresses in Paris in the belief that it was "in the interest of their careers...
Cathy's Clown (Everly Brothers; Warner Bros.). All about a chippie named Cathy who treats her rejected suitor so scurvily that he feels like a $50-a-week circus performer. The delivery of the Brothers Everly is, if possible, more adenoidal than ever, but their righteous bleats have placed Cathy well ahead of Elvis at the top of the charts...
Duel of Angels. The icy virtue of Mary Ure, as a self-righteous Lucrece, is soon broken by the vice of Vivien Leigh, in a glowing performance of Jean Giraudoux's last play...