Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hour-long TV interview, Mississippi's unreconstructed Senator James 0. (for Oliver) Eastland urged Mississippians to vote for the Democratic ticket as well as for his own candidacy for reelection on the ground that solid Southern representation in the Congress would keep integration at bay. Boasted Democrat Eastland: as a result of his strong leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was able to stall or kill 23 civil rights bills in 1957 and 49 in 1960. "I don't always agree with Lyndon Johnson, but you have to give him credit. He took everything relating to integration...
...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 you. He'll say it's the part. It isn't the part, it's talent, sheer...
Discarding his prepared text, Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan said that peace and freedom go together ("like ham and eggs, I almost said"), that we need "to mobilize the moral and spiritual forces of the world" in a Project Mankind. In an interview prior to his speech, Williams said Kennedy would get a National Peace Agency bill through Congress, and that unilateral steps toward disarmament, except for a test moratorium "get onto dangerous ground...
Until last spring, South Africa's Nationalist government considered Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg Richard Ambrose Reeves just another irritating and ineffective critic. But when the police guns mowed down hundreds of unarmed blacks at Sharpeville in March, Bishop Reeves rushed to the hospital to interview the wounded and inspect the dead, publicly announced he had evidence that many had been shot in the back, even accused the cops of using dumdum bullets. The government decided that Bishop Reeves had 'become a threat to its security. Tipped off that his arrest was imminent, the bishop slipped away to England...
Esther Williams was fed up with television-too much crawl, not enough free style-and she said so in a newspaper interview, complaining that talentless network executives had all but foundered an aquatic show she had done for NBC earlier in the summer. It didn't even matter to her that the show had won one of the highest ratings of the summer: its mediocrity pained her. To Critic John Crosby, this was his cup of chlorine, and last week he took over where Critic Williams had left off. In his New York Herald Tribune column, he expanded...