Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.).* Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Stanley Kubrick's outrageously wild but sobering satire about nuclear war. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens...
Said Humphrey: "As President, I would stop the bombing as an acceptable risk for peace because I believe it could lead to success in the negotiations and thereby shorten the war." The Vice President added: "In weighing that risk, and before taking action, I would place key importance on evidence-direct or indirect-by word or deed-of Communist willingness to restore the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Viet Nam. If the government of North Viet Nam were to show bad faith, I would reserve the right to resume the bombing...
...been resolved by a filibuster." But shortly after Hart spoke, the Senate refused to cut off debate on whether it should even take up the Fortas nomination, thereby killing his chances. The vote was 43 against cloture to 45 in favor-14 short of the two thirds needed to stop the anti-Fortas filibuster...
Already Hurt. There was some suspicion that Tito was overdramatizing the present Soviet threat for purely domestic reasons. A common enemy is about the only thing that will get Yugoslavia's five ethnic groups to stop their bickering, and for once, they are uncharacteristically quiet. Also, Tito used the emergency to put into uniform some of the student leaders who had been agitating for liberal reforms of Yugoslav society. Still, in the view of the Yugoslav officials, a certain amount of anxiety is justified...
...viewer is totally involved, loses himself in a giddy, whirling world where the witty becomes indistinguishable from the wheezy. The show takes nothing seriously, least of all itself. When someone pops a hoary old vaudeville gag, the camera will cut to a wild-eyed Laugh-In writer shouting "Please! Stop me before I steal more...