Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choose the same shows. Harry's visit to a childhood sweetheart grown senile (Geraldine Page) is one of the few episodes in which the film touches base with reality. Joshua Mostel, as one of Harry's grandchildren, plays the role of a deadpan mixed-up kid who takes a vow of silence with icy, despicable correctness. And Art Carney, though not as funny as he was in The Honeymooners, salvages some dignity for the film even when it seems most intent to fall on its face...
...nuclear accidents, a possibility that especially troubles Ralph Nader. Nor does it investigate the additional risk of accident involved in the new generation of gas-cooled reactors or the next generation of fast-breeder reactors. In addition, anti-nuclear critics like the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass., vow to scrutinize WASH-1400 for any oversimplification, any error in calculation or method that might discredit the work...
...remained unchanged (see box page 12). While mulling his choice for Vice President and the reorganization of the Executive Branch, he welcomed a remarkably large and varied array of visitors to the White House-Congressmen and Senators, mayors, Governors, labor leaders-as if to demonstrate at the outset his vow to create an "open" presidency...
...Greek Cypriots, with their large majority, are not likely to allow the Turks to retain exclusive control of the important port of Famagusta and a third of the island without a fight. The Greeks waged guerrilla warfare for four years against the British before achieving independence for Cyprus. They vow to be as determined against the Turks...
...their frustration, the farmers vow to continue to make life increasingly uncomfortable for officials on all levels of government, indeed for all Frenchmen, and little is being done to stop them. In the Limoges area last week, for example, peasants parked their tractors across a well-traveled tourist road; when motorists tried to turn back from the barrier, they found themselves trapped by more tractors in the opposite direction...