Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the days when Egypt was trying to negotiate the British out of the Suez, the ten-man Revolutionary Command Council that rules Egypt indicated that it might listen to the Kremlin's siren song. But now that the British have agreed to quit the Suez and the U.S. has promised $80 million in aid, Egypt's young military junta sent a statement to all foreign correspondents in Cairo. Its gist; Egypt regards itself as a friend to the West, though it is unwilling to join a defense alliance...
...ball . . . be cause I don't visit my wife on the set. Now that I'm here, everyone looks at me and asks, 'How come?' " At last, the cameras rolled briefly while Marilyn unwound her hips and silently mouthed the words of the song. Then she dashed over to Joe and chirped: "Thanks for coming, dear. I hope you liked it." Sighed Joe huskily: "I liked what I saw, baby. But it takes too long to see so little...
...show, Como demonstrated why he is the acknowledged TV master of song. Relaxed to the point of bonelessness, he is something of an Ed Sullivan steeped in aplomb, and presents the very picture of ease and graciousness. Como this year will repeat last season's big audience-getter: religious songs. For Catholics, Como sang a musical version of the Act of Contrition; for Protestants, Onward Christian Soldiers; and for Jews, he wore a yarmulke (skull cap) and sang Kol Nidre...
...other toughs, in the pay of a foreign power, try to kill the President (unnamed) when he detrains in a small town called Suddenly (because it makes a good title for the film). Sinatra demonstrates that the years of microphone fixation, aggravated perhaps by the recitation of popular-song lyrics, have given him a full command of pathological gesture; but through no fault of Sinatra's, the pathology takes up so much screen time that moviegoers might fittingly be provided with white coats. Still, the general impression is that he acts a good deal more imaginatively than he ever...
...Sweet Song. In Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Olga Maltsberger, 50, owner of a cat that responds only to a wolf whistle, reported unhappily that a man appeared at her door when she was whistling at 2 a.m., insisted that the call...