Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came along, that was the propitious moment." Originally contemplating a more casual press conference delivery, Nixon instead arranged for prime TV time. There was a sense of old-time Johnsonian motion as supporting actors winged around the globe: General Creighton Abrams from Saigon to Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers from Washington to confer with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon, Ambassador Lodge from Paris to Washington...
While Fortas delayed, pressure built up in Congress, and even Fortas' staunchest friends deserted him. Chairman Celler quietly ordered his Judiciary Committee staff to begin preparing articles of impeachment. With the agreement of House leaders, he and William McCulloch, the ranking Republican on the committee, talked with Mitchell. Though no one would say what Mitchell disclosed, his evidence was apparently convincing. "We got a vast amount of information," Celler told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil. "The Attorney General unfolded the whole story. It clinched the matter. It necessitated that the Judiciary Committee take some action unless Fortas resigned...
This last is just the sort of phonetic parallel Nabokov relishes. Similarly, he is fond of insisting that, with minor adjustments for Julian and Gregorian dating systems, he shares an April 23 birth date with William Shakespeare. But then, he adds, "So does Shirley Temple...
...Soliciting. The all-out campaign paid valuable dividends for the established management. On Capitol Hill, Senator William Saxbe of Ohio rose to praise Goodrich's efforts to fend off "the predatory advance of a conglomerate." The Akron Beacon Journal likened Northwest to a "brash hussy trying to persuade our favorite uncle to elope." Forbes, a business biweekly, ran a long article that was so favorable to Goodrich that the company bought full-page newspaper space to reprint...
Director Jack Starrett and Cinematographer John Stephens pad out their film with lots of repetitive footage of the Advocates barreling up the California coast, but they also pull off a split-screen chase scene that puts The Thomas Crown Affair to shame. As Angel and Laurie, William Smith and Valerie Starrett (the director's wife) make up in enthusiasm what they lack in finesse. Angel is obviously and deeply indebted to Bonnie and Clyde, and even more to Nicholas Ray's 1949 They Live by Night, but anyone who expects a work as accomplished as those will...