Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nugent, 22, down to the LBJ Ranch specifically to ask dad's permission to marry, she just wasn't talking about it. "My personal life is my own," said Luci, as she returned to classes at Georgetown University's School of Nursing. Pat was doggedly silent, too. Ever since he started dating Luci last summer, friends have been kidding him about not getting drafted, but now he is putting a stop to that by going on active duty soon, probably in the Air Force Reserve. A lot of people thought they detected a presidential veto in what...
...nuts-and-bolts field of truck selling, Ford has chosen gentle Silent Film Veteran Buster Keaton as its pitchman. In one new commercial, Keaton fills up a truck with furniture only to find that he has left out a live lion...
When Keaton loads him on another truck, the lion drives off. Buster is last seen in hot pursuit, his legs whirring away at silent-movie speed...
Then, 143 miles high and 541.9 miles downrange over the Atlantic, the Agena suddenly went silent. At the Houston control center, flight directors hunted desperately for their missing spacecraft, still hoping that there might be something in orbit for a Gemini rendezvous. But after a futile radar hunt, a technician at the Carnavon tracking station in Australia announced the end by moaning...
...oddly colorless. Though sometimes lacking in subtlety and balance, the orchestra played with great exuberance and a kind of healthy sentimentality. The tall, imposing Kondrashin, who does not use a baton, in the belief that the face can convey more than the arms, smiled and scowled like a silent-movie hero, occasionally punctuated climaxes with gestures as sudden and menacing as a karate chop. Compared with Russia's other two major orchestras, both of which have previously toured the U.S., the Moscow Philharmonic proved itself superior to the heavily romantic Moscow State Orchestra but lacking the versatility and polish...