Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his prophetlike beard, clear eyes, ever-ready smile and imposing stature, this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner really looks the part. René Cassin, 81, noted French jurist, was a chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
...groups that follow the two dreams are as different as the dreams themselves. Paunchy suburban couples from Hartford and Los Angeles come to see Southern Hospitality. They are displeased with the increasing velocity of their modern life; and the sight of calm acres make them smile. They gladly plunk down their admission fees to see the remnants of the old days in Natchez and Richmond. They stay at hotels with names like The Plantation House, and go home convinced that heaven must be a little like the South...
...killer himself. Pleasence's own acting ambitions are more conventional. "I'd really like to do a season of repertory with Shaw," he muses. "We'd do a Shakespeare, a new play, a revival of The Caretaker." And, he adds, with that alley-cat smile: "If we couldn't find somebody to put up the money, we'd do it ourselves, with the money from the glossy movies...
...Thus, after Nixon carefully avoided comment on a number of touchy issues during a televised interview in Chicago last week, Humphrey happily said: "I remember when Tom Dewey thought he could glide through a campaign full of love and kisses. All he thought he had to do was smile. He was wrong...
...idyllic delights of Lincoln Park, only to run into a clash with police. A flying bottle narrowly missed Burroughs' head. Genet, who looks like one of Santa Claus' elves, was almost clubbed by a cop before he calmed his would-be assailant with a beatific smile...