Word: poker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pietro Germi, who directed Mlle. Gobette, shuffles his characters around the screen with the dexterity of a skilled poker player, bluffing for the fun of it, but keeping all the high cards. His intrigues are helped by the apt dialogue which is, surprisingly, translated into fairly literate subtitles. Mr. Germi has succeeded where most others have succeeded. A French farce is a French farce...
...frame-up engineered by disgruntled Czarist émigrés, officials at the Soviet embassy in London came reluctantly to the conclusion that British justice could not be sidetracked. As Olympic Discus Thrower Nina Ponomareva doggedly practiced pushups for six weeks in an embassy bedroom, they maintained with stolid poker faces that in Russia no one is dragged to court until he is proved guilty. In Britain, the Foreign Office explained patiently, things are different: there it is considered the court's function to determine innocence or guilt...
...through Georgia Tech. Herman got his own way: studying law at the University of Georgia as his father had done. With a car and more spending money than the average student, Herman became a big man on campus. He got Bs with little book-cracking, loafed, played poker, dated coeds. Remembers one: "He was pretty forward, but he was good company." Pledged to Sigma Nu, his father's fraternity, Herman helped guide a revolt by smaller fraternities against the big three-Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Chi Phi and Kappa Alpha-that traditionally controlled the university's Pan Hellenic Society...
...burly, outgiving 200-pounder, Tacho delighted in shooting, swimming, poker, dancing (he was fast-stepping through the Cha Cha Cha shortly before he was shot...
...White House Acts. At 1 a.m. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan, a poker-playing personal friend of Somoza, got the news and urgently notified Washington. The White House moved fast. A radio flash to the Panama Canal Zone awakened U.S. doctors, ordered them to fly to Nicaragua. A U.S. helicopter took off to whisk the wounded President back to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, at first light. Then President Eisenhower, who met Somoza at last July's conference of Presidents in Panama, sent off another plane from Washington carrying Major General Leonard D. Heaton, commanding officer at Walter Reed Hospital...