Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack Lemmon might pass for a businessman, except that he moves too quickly and talks too volubly. He has close-cropped dark hair and large expressive eyes which grow increasingly intense as he warms to a particular subject. "Almost everybody I know is crazy about this guy," said the producer of a rival play, sitting in on the interview. "Success hasn't changed him a bit, not a bit. Look at him. He doesn't even know how good he is. No use asking him what makes him funny. He won't tell...
...control comes into focus. But there is a great distinction between the uniformity of educational standards and Constitutional guarantees which the government would seek to implement, and uniformity of thought. If the aid were to be channeled through the states, for example, state authorities would determine all educational policies except those which clash with the Constitution...
...Except for his bearded friend Fidel Castro, most of the rest of the world leaders, including the representatives of the unfamiliar new nations, had a feeling for parliamentary behavior and a preference for orderly persuasion. The contrast made Khrushchev all the more conspicuous. President Eisenhower, back in New York for a series of meetings with foreign delegates, stayed away from the U.N. itself but had a quiet talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, whose eventoned eloquence in the General Assembly was the week's best performance. The neutralist leaders, led by India's Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Senate labor rackets committee was winding up its investigation of corruption in the nation's labor unions, Chief Counsel Bob Kennedy called in each of his 50 hardworking staffers, talked at length about their problems, and arranged at least one job prospect for each man and woman.) Except for a handful of top assistants, Bobby trusts no one, feels compelled to assure himself of every situation. Many politicians and field workers accuse him of ruthlessness. and in his single-mindedness he often conveys that impression. In New York, at the campaign's outset, he made no friends with...
...Rhode Island's Democratic primary to choose a successor for retiring patriarchal U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green, no one figured that Claiborne deBorda Pell, 41, had much of a chance. No one, that is, except Newcomer Claiborne Pell. So while the statehouse pros snickered, and while his opponents-former Governor Dennis Roberts and former U.S. Attorney General J. Howard Mc-Grath-sniped at each other, pipe-smoking Princetonian Pell put together an energetic campaign. Last week, in a state that is 58% Roman Catholic, Episcopalian Pell carried the primary with a walloping 83,000 votes to Roberts...