Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After approval of the technicians' resolution last week, Israeli leaders hailed the accord as a significant treaty binding the U.S. and Israel together to a degree that Presidents since Harry Truman's time have resisted. They were unhappy that Kissinger, in defending his diplomatic handiwork to Congress, appeared to take a less exuberant view...
Died. Herbert W. Christen berry, 77, U.S. district judge in New Orleans; of an apparent heart attack; in Kentwood, La. Christenberry, who had been U.S. Attorney in his native New Orleans for five years, was appointed to the bench in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. In the years since then, he made a number of pioneering rulings in civil rights cases, including a 1966 order forcing school integration in Plaquemines Parish, La., one of the longest Deep South holdouts against federal desegregation laws...
Jose Ferrer impersonates Joe Stalin. John Houseman is Winston Churchill. Ed Flanders is Harry Truman. They were all gathered together on location outside Hamburg for a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special entitled "Truman at Potsdam." "Truman was an honest, practical man of little intrigue," observed Flanders, best known for his 1974 Tony Award-winning role in A Moon for the Misbegotten. "I just had to stand up straight." Houseman, who won a 1973 Academy Award for his supporting role in The Paper Chase, learned to smoke cigars for his portrayal of Churchill and then picked up some of Winnie...
...mark in the House-with the exception of a speech he now regrets. During the Korean War, he urged that atomic bombs be dropped on the North Koreans unless they withdrew from the South. "I am wiser today," says Bentsen, who claims that a member of the Truman Cabinet suggested he make the speech to try to pressure the North Koreans to negotiate...
...Anyway, poor James Whitmore, star of the early fifties sci-fi feature Them, the hero of a couple of short-lived series like The Law and Mr. Jones, and a dead ringer for Spencer Tracy, is now getting a lot of attention for his portrayal of Harry Truman in this new movie, created from a play which Gerald Ford and a lot of other people loved, the much-advertised and obvious product of the recent Time Magazine-reported craze about the straight-talking, poker-playing, president. It started at the Circle Theatre in Cleveland Circle, Brookline--one of the most...