Word: cancellation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearances in Los Angeles tied up traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for hours. He drew an overflow crowd of 12,000 at Brigham Young University in conservative Utah, even though campus authorities declined to cancel classes for the occasion. In Lincoln, Neb., he attracted the biggest political audience (12,000) since Dwight Eisenhower stopped there 16 years...
...people and are against independence, boycotted the ceremony. The capital was still shrouded in mourning for 24 persons killed in January riots between pro-independence and anti-independence forces. Continuing unrest led Princess Alexandra, who had planned to represent Queen Elizabeth at independence ceremonies, to cancel her visit...
Huston's problem as a director has always been indecision. His laconic humor and bent for undisciplined improvisation invariably takes precedence over careful development of theme through characterization and narrative. In The African Queen, the pretentions of melodrama cancel-out the element of romance, providing only an irritating absence of clarity of purpose. Considering its creators, The African Queen represents a sad, if entertaining, meeting of people whose careers were moving downhill. Bogart and Hepburn had made by far their best films, she for Cukor and Bogart for Hawks; Huston's reputation as a director grew deservedly tarnished...
Since no girls appeared, the founder, a Winthrop House sophomore, decided to cancel the meeting. "That's just not the type of sexual freedom I had in mind," was his explanation...
Tightfisted Buyers. It wasn't easy. Expansion-minded Sunset was saddled with several white-elephant projects and mountainous debts ($130 million last June). To reduce that burden, Rozet persuaded lenders to stretch out some loans and cancel others in return for undeveloped acreage. Last November he put $50 million of Sunset's realty holdings up for auction in Los Angeles, but buyers proved so tightfisted that he accepted bids for only $6,000,000 worth. That netted Sunset a mere $300,000 above the $5,700,000 debt on the properties involved. But the company still had some...