Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White declared Laos had embarked on "a perilous course." But another veteran U.S. diplomat added: "Don't write Laos off to the Communists yet. There'll be time enough to do that when it happens. After all, this is not the first time in history that a country has admitted Communists to its government and still survived...
...play was The Troublemakers, a drama about college students who beat to death another boy because of some campus newspaper articles he had written.* Director John Frankenheimer (Williams. '51), a gangly TV veteran of 27, was disappointed from the start with George Bellak's TV adaptation of his original play. So Frankenheimer called in TV Author Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse...
...year newspaper veteran whose father and grandfather were peace officers in Arizona territory, Reddick normally has no use for heroics. Why did he disarm the wife slayer? "Well," he explained, "I began to think, hell, when a man fires a gun into your face and it doesn't go off, it's just not your time...
...funny staging. The cast, mostly imported and mostly unknown in the U.S. (except for brilliant Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato). had been so ably picked by Impresario Kelly that the total effect surpassed the Met's memorable Don Pasquale, something of a standard for opera buffa. Said one opera veteran: "As of today, Dallas is on the map as an opera town along with New York, San Francisco and Chicago...
...substantial group of transfers are students from technical schools who find that "Science is not all of education, and who wish a liberal arts program. Some of these people do a remarkable job at Harvard," Cutler says. "We sometimes take a reformed veteran who has gone in the service from another college," he adds...