Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assurances about uprisings and defections, he approved a too-skimpy, all-Cuban invasion that was doomed to bloody defeat. Secretary of State Dean Rusk went along with the plan, and so did the top foreign policy thinkers on the White House staff: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy and Walt Whitman Rostow. Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles opposed the project, somewhat deviously, by leaking to the press stories of sharp conflict within the Administration. The most outspoken opposition came from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright: he was convinced that the invasion attempt would fail...
...Absent-Minded Professor. Walt Disney cracks the anti-gravity problem in a bouncing farce about "flubber...
UNIVERSITY: Walt Disney's latest and least objectionable full length cartoon features. The 101 DALMATIONS, continues. The dogs are more than pleasant; less so is the inadequate co-feature, HORSE WITH THE FLYING TALE...
Islands of the Sea (Buena Vista), the most recent of Walt Disney's ain't-nature-grand operas, is a scrappy but fascinating "featurette" (28 minutes) that observes in full color the recondite fauna of several seldom-visited islands-the Galápagos, the Falklands and Guadalupe. Best shots: a hideous six-foot iguana leaps into the sea and instantly seems transmogrified into a silly wriggling pollywog in a milk bottle; an elephant seal, a 20-ft. blob of blubber, lies snoring into its floppy, built-in nosebag, looking from the neck up like none other than...
...Absent-Minded Professor. Walt Disney's wacky science-fiction farce about Neddie the Nut and his fabulous flubber...