Word: un
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pacing is director Terence Young's. Young did three of the James Bond films, yet this is a new field for him. The Bond films employed un-subtle gadgetry and exotic locales to produce the doses of excitement. In Wait Until Dark, Young is largely confined to a single set and must have the audience identify with the surface realism of the situation. Young succeeds well in meeting the challenge. The pauses and rushes are well thought out; the audience, which in this kind of film is usually skeptical, can content itself that it would react similarly. The final shock...
...broke away from his somewhat aseptic form to broaden his attack on the Johnson Administration. Unimpressed, Stanford University's pro-McCarthy newspaper welcomed his campus visit with the disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could be overcome, conceded his staff, the Minnesota Senator's name as a presidential aspirant seemed destined to be writ in water...
Hayes charged the un-named councillor with "fronting" for the Wasserman Development Corp. Only later did he admit that he was referring to Crane...
...Debray, 27, was accorded extraordinary privileges for a prisoner. At the small provincial town of Choreti, he is living under guard in Bolivian officers' quarters, getting the same food and accommodations and busily reading and writing, apparently on philosophical themes. Debray continues to be an un usual prisoner in other ways. Last week Bolivia's President René Barrientos Ortuño offered to trade him for an anti-Castro hero now imprisoned in Cuba, and Debray himself let it be known that he had been saved from execution by none other than the U.S.'s Central...
...same time Representative Willis (D-La.) of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) introduced a bill calling on the Attorney General to initiate blacklist proceedings with the SACB against "Communist action, Communist front, or Communist infiltrated" organizations. The bill also requires that organizations listed as "communist" attach this label to all their publicity, written or oral; that dissolution of an organization after Board proceedings have begun shall not stop investigations; and that the courts are forbidden to interfere by any means while cases are pending before the Board. The bill passed the House...