Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). For those who can't stand the Miami Vestals, a touch of Vertigo may make them feel better. Alfred Hitchcock jumps Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes through the usual nightmarish hoops...
...leadership who clearly have doubts about the present course of Chinese policy, which is leading to a growing isolation of China; most of them are among the "new generation" that is faced with the day-to-day problems of running the country. Mao and his men are out of touch with and unsympathetic to the younger generation of the party, and Mao has already groomed as his heirs-apparent men who will be dutiful preachers of the Maoist gospel. Among them are Party Doctrinal Elder Liu Shao-chi, Teng Hsiao-ping, the party's powerful secretary-general...
...Boom Slayer. Roche may have a touch of the typical automan's optimism, but other seasoned economy watchers agree that business is basically sound. "A recession is certainly not imminent," says Harvard Economist John V. Lintner. "Business is very strong." Echoes James Robertson, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board: "Too much is being made of the auto figures and the market performance. When matched with other straws in the wind, neither of these developments means much." Even so, Gardner Ackley, the President's chief economist, says: "Some of the tremendous exuberance has gone out of the economy...
Since the dyslexic child has faulty visual and auditory perception, Mrs. McGlannan tries to reinforce these senses by stressing touch techniques. Children make human and animal figures out of clay to get a clearer conception of spatial relationships, work with big Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says...
...Gladys George. It was probably inevitable that Lana Turner and Producer Ross Hunter would want to take her out of mothballs just once more. Lana can wear clothes and look worried quite fetchingly, and Producer Hunter caters almost exclusively to an audience that not only loves to see and touch the flimsy fabric of human existence but likes to turn the stuff inside out and peek at the labels...