Word: thompson
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There have, unfortunately, been some charges of sexism in the campaign. Perhaps modeling his northern neighbor Gov. "Big Jim" Thompson of Illinois, Bunning mounted a platform with rolled-up shirt sleeves to state that the governor has to "butt heads" to attract industry to Kentucky. Negotiations over a debate between the two major candidates also involved the size of the podium for the candidates (Bunning...
Java, 1942. A P.O.W. camp, where men are men-except for the Japanese guards, who are wily beasts. Through the sweltering days and ominous nights, three British prisoners run variations on the national character. Hicksley-Ellis (Jack Thompson) conducts his impotent belligerence by the book; ragged, resilient Jack Celliers (David Bowie) has the clear eyes and defiant smirk of a Kipling hero; Lawrence (Tom Conti), the camp translator, is an Oxbridgian humanist seeking a tunnel into the Oriental mind. Men are strong; men are shot; men fight on for their peculiar codes of honor. This is an art-house Bridge...
...Instead of paying $100 to $400 for a night in the hospital, patients at the new clinics are sent home with instructions on how to care for themselves. "They know what to anticipate in the way of pain, swelling and the course of their recovery," says Orthopedic Surgeon Lyn Thompson of Salt Lake Surgical Center, a Utah facility that performs nearly 8,000 operations a year...
...there this fall. In Atlanta, the Majik Market chain of convenience stores has agreed to use its outlets as voter-registration sites. The overall goal of the V.E.P. is to register 350,000 new voters in eleven Southern states by the end of the year, says Executive Director Geraldine Thompson...
...City Councilman John Lewis. Yet most admit that the flamboyant and magnetic Jackson and the "Southern Crusade" run by his Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) have helped spark excitement among rural blacks. "After he came, enthusiasm really revived, especially among the 18-to-24-year-olds," says Thompson...