Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Herm, "Konga opened very big in London," and should be a "blockbuster," At previews in London and Hollywood, he said, "Girls actually cried when Konga was killed and shrank back to size. It's very sad...
Died. Govind Ballabh Pant, 73, Home Minister of India since 1955 and a wise, wily veteran of the ruling Congress Party who ranked second only to Nehru; of a stroke; in New Delhi. A broad-shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head...
...moral principle, then John Fitzgerald Kennedy will take his place in the lofty company to which he honorably aspires." Since then, although still generally enthusiastic about the Kennedy Administration, Shannon has increasingly peppered his prose. Wrote he of Kennedy's early Cabinet choices: "It has been a pretty sad interregnum for liberal admirers of our new, young President-elect. What began as a search for new men is ending as the acceptance of grey men." After Secretary of State Dean Rusk's first press conference, Shannon commented acidly: "Answering approximately 20 questions, he explored the outer reaches...
Something About a Soldier. Branwell's sad saga ought to have made a more compelling story than Novelist Daphne Du Maurier has made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls...
...obvious source for skills would seem to be vocational high schools, but many a businessman hesitates to accept their graduates. President George Prezembel of Chicago's Midwest Machine Co. says: "It's all pretty sad. If you show them where to drill a hole, they can usually do that; but if their drill needs regrinding, they are stuck...