Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five or six years pass. Cats beget kittens, frauleins beget G.I. issue from the Army of Occupation, bad jokes beget worse ones, and Producer-Director Gottfried Reinhardt (whose wife, Silvia, perpetrated the scenario) underscores the ironies by barreling in beer-hall background music. Actor Redford, a winner on Broadway (Barefoot in the Park), overworks his smooth, stagy comedy style to diminishing effect. Working even harder, Actor Connors curiously resembles those lacquered leading men who proliferated in Hollywood during the '40s while everyone else was away...
...basis of early season performances, it is virtually impossible to pick a winner from the three teams. Eliot has beaten Lowell, which defeated Kirkland; both Kirkland and Lowell have dumped Winthrop, which predictably knocked off Eliot in a defensive duel...
...reason was simple. Kasavubumust run for the presidency again in February, and Tshombe, the Congo's most popular politician and the big winner of this spring's parliamentary elections, was after his job. Despite his unquestioned success as Premier, therefore, Tshombe had to go. "The mission I conferred upon him in 1964 has been completed," Kasavubu explained to a joint session of the new Parliament. "Therefore, out of respect for the habitual rules of democracy and since his government has not resigned on its own initiative, I have today put an end to its functions...
...Which is not to say that foreign syndication is a giveaway program. Estimated annual take on the part of U.S. packagers for foreign replay rights: $75 million; and many a show that was a disaster domestically, like The Reporter (killed by CBS last year after 13 episodes), is a winner worldwide...
...double challenge of pitching the deciding game of the World Series with only two days of rest. "I'll volunteer," he said, "if I get asked." Naturally , he got asked. It was supposed to be Don Drysdale's turn to pitch. Drysdale was a 23-game winner during the season; he had won a Series game, and he was rested. But when the game started, there was Koufax out on the mound. At the start, his curve was hanging, his fastball was erratic. He walked two men in the first inning, and Freon horns tooted triumphantly in Minnesota...