Word: writed
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Until democracy can be established (municipal elections are scheduled this fall, provincial elections the following year for an assembly which will write a constitution), Mohammed is still conducting an autocratic reign, with the help of a Cabinet which he appoints and a 76-man consultative assembly which he selects. Out of a palace budget of $4,000,000, the Sultan maintains a yoman "Black Guard" and their 300 horses, keeps 35 cars ranging from a Rolls Royce to a jeep, and big villas and staffs for his two sons and the three elder daughters. Apple of her father...
...latest bannings was newly elected Mrs. Earl Maughmer Jr., wife of a police sergeant. She objected to a widely used text called Geography of the World for High Schools because it praised the U.N. in the foreword, also condemned a book which Yale Geographer Stephen B. Jones helped write because one of its chapters bore the title: "It's All One World." Then she went after a twelfth-grade text called Applied Economics because it said that the Government had certain obligations "to promote the welfare of all the people." Said one board member: "That's Socialism...
...Writers. In that tradition, producers try to leave so little to chance that TV has spawned a group of craftsmen who call themselves "audience participation comedy writers.'' Not only do they interview prospective participants and write the ad-lib banter between contestants and M.C.s on such shows as Two for the Money and Edgar Bergen's recently ended Do You Trust Your Wife?, but their lines are carefully rehearsed...
...heights of a new Pagliacci. Most critics agreed that Olivier, with real virtuosity and superb support, had disproved the footlight adage that actors can be no better than their material. But Playwright Osborne was not disparaged too severely. Of all theatrical talents, perhaps the uncanniest is an ability to write the sort of humdrum drama that great actors can instinctively exalt. On this bittersweet basis, John Osborne got his share of the applause. But the tears, including those of Actor Olivier's wife Vivien Leigh, were strictly accorded to Sir Laurence...
...Dolphin (20th Century-Fox). "For me," says Sophia Loren in her first Hollywood part, "plenty of money is enough." After this picture, Actress Loren will probably be able to write her own definition of plenty, and Hollywood will be glad...