Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made in 1936, the Hays office kept Producer Sam Goldwyn both from announcing that he had purchased the play and from using its title (the film was released as These Three), insisted that he change the plot to a conventional heterosexual triangle. Director Wyler's new version will stick closely to Playwright Hellman's original subject matter, though he, too, has bypassed her title for the more sensational Infamous. But Wyler's use of the Lesbian theme does not guarantee that his film will be any better than the excellent Goldwyn version; it is only indicative...
...Derby, with only mild urging from Sellers ("I just shook the stick at him"), Carry Back made up 20 lengths to come home three-quarters of a length in front of Crozier. In the Preakness, (see cuts), Carry Back was bumped by a couple of horses as he broke from the gate, fell back to last place, 14 lengths behind Globemaster. "I was plenty worried," says Jockey Sellers. "He scared the willies out of me because the track has sharp turns, and it's hard to make up lost ground. But I think he disliked all that dirt flying...
...this lassitude and if necessary, swing our big stick a few times. But let us do it now, while there is still time to swing it. Lionel Kraft Dunster House...
...recent attacks have proven, those faculty members who questioned the efficiency of the big stick are courageous individuals. The attacks on them, particularly those in the name of national security, show not only how difficult but how necessary it is to challenge ossified assumptions...
Planeload. The Communists would be happy to stick around. Happiest of all were the Red Chinese, who were gleeful to find themselves back at a bargaining table-and propaganda forum-with the civilized world. The chosen delegate was chunky, Paris-educated Marshal Chen Yi, 60, who has been Foreign Minister for three years and who, as a veteran of the 1927 Nanchang uprising and commander of the rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport...