Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength. The most accurate count, as it turned out, was by the Nixon organization, which earlier had talked about 700 and privately refined its calculations to 702. Needed to be nominated: 667. As the nominating speeches droned on, Nixon visited his command trailer outside the hall and got word that a first-ballot victory was assured...
Richard Nixon's choice as running mate would not have batted an eye. "Spiro Agnew," admitted Spiro T. Agnew last week, "is not a household word." Anonymity may indeed have been one of the strongest factors in his selection as the Republican vice-presidential candidate. For if the Maryland Governor has done little to excite attention beyond the borders of his own state, he has done even less to arouse real antagonism in the G.O.P. Outside Maryland he has been known chiefly as the first Governor of Greek descent...
...executive on a recent plane ride, who suggested the Senator would make the perfect saddle man for a bit in a new film, Paint Your Wagon. Morse was delighted, even suggested the extra little business of standing in the saddle instead of just sitting there to deliver his five-word line. "His voice was good and strong," says Logan, "but of course, he's had practice in that...
Originally a hobby, the network has grown far beyond Roth's expectations. The shower from space has increased, and, with United picking up the tab, Roth has stepped up his activities. He now publishes advance word of the time and place of satellite re-entries in a weekly bulletin that goes out to 118 airlines in the U.S. and abroad...
Love and Hate. That depth was apparent in The Night of the Hunter, in which he came close to playing himself, in the role of an itinerant, self-educated backwoods preacher with the word LOVE tattooed on one hand and HATE on the other. Charles Laughton, who directed him in the picture, called Mitchum "one of the best actors in the world." The potential at least is there, and occasionally the taste. Mitchum pridefully insists that he will not make a picture merely for the money. He refused $500,000 to do Town Without Pity. When United Artists upped...