Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in Manhattan's U.S. District Court, a jury found 20 of Barbara's racketeer-guests guilty of conspiring to obstruct justice by lying to grand juries about their reasons for coming to Apalachin.* Facing them in mid-January: maximum sentences of five years and/or $10,000 fines. In what U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers hailed as a "landmark" verdict, the Government in an ingeniously based prosecution won its biggest courtroom victory against organized crime since the conviction of Al Capone. For without proving that the defendants had assembled for a "crime convention," youthful (36) Special...
...Kansas City thinks that these problems will go unsolved. The dirty old building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue has an almost palpable air of permanence, and Roy Roberts' papers will go on pushing for the main cause to which they were dedicated at birth: what's good for Kansas City...
Orange Bowl Regatta (CBS, 2-3:30 p.m.). Every sort of powerboat will compete in races on Miami's Biscayne Bay, some in the International Grand Prix for the Baker Palladium Trophy. Also water skiing...
...Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, poetic film from an adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown Negro cast, the graceful transformation of the original, and the breathtaking image presented of life as a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
...French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, wildly poetic film from a Brazilian poet's adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown but graceful cast, and the breathtaking image presented of Negro life during a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...