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...restore the star-but not her film. Director Blake Edwards (Julie's new husband) seems to believe that if a man failing off a roof is funny, then two men falling should be hilarious. After 136 minutes, Darling Lili's gags and garrulity make it as aseptic, smooth and foursquare as an ice cube...
...news from the constituencies was the first tip-off that he was on his way to a victory: the smooth Tory machine had turned out a very big vote...
...sure, if Kelso's plan were widely adopted, the stock market might lose its lure as a casino. Reason: investors would have much less incentive to gamble on rising stock prices and much more inducement to invest for steady income. Kelso expects that his plan would smooth the gyrations of stock prices. Even in a bear market, he argues, the public's appetite for new shares would hardly diminish because investors would not be risking their own savings to acquire stock. And he figures that people who own stock as a source of second incomes would...
...week they had been flocking to Billy Graham's East Tennessee crusade. Each night some 55,000 gathered in the University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium for the Graham style of neo-tent meeting-compounded of smooth efficiency, earnest prayer and the preacher's intimations of apocalypse. Graham warned, as he had before, that the Second Coming was at hand: "Jesus said that there will be a generation in history whose problems are so great there is no human solution. God has to step into history...
...blacks; in one year, it added 108 school districts to the 162 desegregated from 1954 to 1969. When an ugly confrontation seemed likely between Mississippi state police and students at Jackson State after the shootings, he ordered Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard off on an Air Force plane to smooth things out there...