Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...open letters to the candidates called attention-in necessarily guarded fashion, owing to security regulations-to the possibility of revolutionary new weapons. Doubt has been publicly cast on the military value of these new weapons by Dr. David R. Inglis, past Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists. He could readily clear up his doubt by reference to the official request of the armed services-the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force-for a study, on an urgent basis, of such weapons...
...switch of California's 32 electoral votes reduced Jack Kennedy's electoral count to 300, gave Nixon 223 of the 269 needed to win. Then Kennedy's lead in Minnesota (II) dropped on recheck to a shaky 22,011 (out of 1,537,844 votes cast). Since Kennedy's margins in such heavy-electoral-vote states as Illinois (27) and New Jersey (16) were less than 1%, Republicans were tantalized by the thought that a series of hard-nosed recounts could give Nixon the magic 269 after...
...expense of the larger. New York, with 74 times more people than Alaska, has only 15 times more electoral votes. Moreover, the electoral power is the same whether the vote is light or heavy; in 1960 the eleven states of the old Confederacy, where few Negroes are enfranchised, cast only 14% of the popular vote but 24% of the electoral vote. Furthermore, the electoral college cannot keep pace with the nation's population shifts. The 1950 census determined each state's electoral total for 1960. Had the 1960 census figures been used, Richard Nixon would have...
...cast, with the exception of Mr. McDowall, is excellent. M'el Dowd, as Morgan Le Fey, is appropriately unusual, and Mr. Goulet makes a handsome and robust Lancelot. Julie Andrews still has that "delicate air," but in this production she is overshadowed by smashing performances from Robert Coote and Mr. Burton, Mr. Coote, who will be remembered as Pickering in My Fair Lady, is a riot as Pellinore, with his blustery Britishness and total incompetence in any given situation. Mr. Burton's dramatic talents are already widely recognized, and he enhances that reputation as a perfect Arthur in Camelot...
...Grisbi is too much even for Gabin. And the rest of the cast plods through this meandering script with about as much determination as a group of students heading for a nine o'clock class. Even the machine-gun fire moves slowly...