Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather was dreary and drizzling one morning last week as 500 people filed into the silent Ackermann plant of the Wheeling Steel Corp. in Wheeling, W. Va. The men were not workers arriving for the morning shift but guests at a funeral. They came to bid at an auction to liquidate the plant. In 18 hours of bidding, they bought $5,000,000 worth of idle equipment that once had hummed busily under the hands of 1,200 workers. To Wheeling, the auctioneer's machine-gun chant was an old familiar dirge; for years, thousands of its skilled workmen...
...meantime," says Gogo, "let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent." Waiting for Godot has nearly no action, only waiting and talk, the talk to make the waiting pass more quickly. Gogo, intellectually an infant, curls into a foetal position and sleeps whenever he has the chance, tries to tell Didi about his dreams, talks of running away so that Didi will convince him to stay, and whines about his aching feet. Didi knows that his only important job is to keep the two together. He ignores Gogo when necessary, refuses to listen...
...government, handed in his resignation. De Gaulle's response was decisive. Ignoring Jacomet's resignation, De Gaulle ordered him dismissed from his post and suspended his membership in the elite Council of State. After that, other officials in Algeria who had been muttering about resigning fell abruptly silent...
...week's end the prosecution announced that it would skip over to evidence that officials were silent partners in firms receiving millions of dollars in government contracts. But all in all, it was a poor show. Said one courtroom observer, a Turkish newsman who had been haled into court on countless occasions for defying Menderes' oppressive press laws: "I fought Menderes, but not for this. If this is the best proof the government can produce, it would have been better to shoot the lot the morning of the revolution...
Died. Mack Sennett (real name: Michael Sinnott), 76, impresario of frantic antics on the silent screen; of a heart attack; in Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, near Hollywood. Canadian-born Sennett started moviemaking under famed D. W. Griffith in 1910, quickly became Sultan of Slapstick, directing Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Bathing Beauties Gloria Swanson and Carole Lombard, Keystone Cops Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle...