Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Walter Lang, 73, motion-picture director for 36 years; of liver failure following surgery; in Palm Springs, Calif. Hollywood was making silent movies when Lang arrived in 1925, but he made the jump into talkies, Technicolor and wide screens with ease. He directed nearly 40 films including Cheaper by the Dozen, Call Me Madam, Can Can and The King...
That was Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of August 6, 1945. More than a quarter of a century later, the victims of the A-Bomb attack on Hiroshima still are suffering, but they are no longer silent...
...silent, and they just stared," Coles remembers. But his own shyness proved disarming. In the first volume of the Children series, he describes one visit to a poor family: "There were no chairs. We stood there, shuffling and anxious. Finally I told them of my nervousness and asked if I might sit on the floor. I started telling them about myself, my life and my interests." When he stopped, the black mother patted his knee and said, "We will pray for you and make...
...black population of Rhodesia has been conspicuously silent since 1965, when the territory's white-minority government unilaterally decided to break away from British rule. Last week the blacks-whom Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith has called "the happiest Africans in the world"-went on a rampage. For three consecutive nights more than 8,000 angry Africans rioted in Gwelo, Rhodesia's fourth largest city, burning buildings and hurling stones at white-owned cars. The trouble spread to Salisbury's Harare township and to Bulawayo, Fort Victoria and Umtali, where eight blacks were killed...
...Flip's graph would be all hills and valleys, zigs and zags. He puts his material over gently, through sheer likability-and considerable body English. Though only 5 ft. 6 in., he has an amazingly elastic physical grace, and a repertory of motions that recalls the masters of silent movie comedy...