Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justify their jabs at the U.S., Garcia & Co. cited a long list of grievances, old and new. The U.S., they complained, had still not settled a $972 million "omnibus claim" covering, among other things, damage done during the World War II fighting in the Philippines. It had yet to come through with the bulk of the $125 million in credits and development funds promised Garcia during his visit to Washington last June. After four years of Philippine pressure and 2½ years of on-again, off-again negotiations, the status of U.S. military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most...
...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A condensation of James Agee's prizewinning 21/2-hr. "Lincoln Series," first telecast...
...things can be as dull as satires on Hollywood except possibly satires on psychiatrists, but NBC's Omnibus this week combined both in a show that, in its half dozen best moments, reached comically irrational heights rare on TV. The hour-long (and far too slow-paced) show: Malice in Wonderland, by lampooning, lapidating S. J. Perelman, veteran of movie-writing stints (Around the World in 80 Days). Most of Malice enmeshed Dr. Randolph Kalbfus (Keenan Wynn) an innocent Manhattan psychoanalyst who goes to Hollywood as technical adviser on psychological movies. The doctor (crying, "I'm sorry, Sigmund...
...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). S. Ji Perelman, a long-toothed pixie who has never been able to believe his eyes, gathers together three of his stories about Hollywood's screaming Mimis under the collective title Malice in Wonderland...
...typical slam-bang effort to solve all his problems, 83-year-old President Rhee devised an omnibus security law that opponents, including the bar association, said was so loosely drawn that it could be used to silence all political protest. In a desperate effort to block the bill, 80 Assemblymen of the opposition Democratic Party barricaded themselves in the Assembly chamber for six days...