Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Pennsylvania (81 votes) got the silent treatment. Governor David Lawrence, who has steadfastly refused to look in Kennedy's direction or to relax his grip on his restive delegation, was silent too. Kennedy's hope was that if he could show Lawrence the ears and tail of New York and California, Lawrence would put aside his misgivings about a fellow Roman Catholic's ability to win the presidency, and capitulate...
...Chaplin is just as eccentric as ever: "Such a contradiction. I always have to carry a large supply of loose change when we go out-to do the tipping. And then he'll go off and buy me an expensive car!" Sometimes the little tramp of the old silent films is equally confusing to his children: "When Victoria saw her first Charlie Chaplin movie, she asked, 'Was that funny little man my grandfather...
...nightmare that follows is expertly gothic, but the nausea never disappears. Little should be said of the plot-Hitchcock enjoins all viewers to be silent-except that Anthony Perkins, who plays an amateur taxidermist, is sickeningly involved, and that a blow is dealt to mother love from which that sentiment may not recover. Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror...
...Silent in the Streets. The political talk is largely leftwing, and nationalism is still the main subject. "It's inevitable," said a tall Tanganyikan in hound's-tooth tweeds. "When our country is at such a dramatic point in its history, we are eager to be a part of it." Black South Africans in London number scarcely a dozen. "Only the safe ones get sent to British universities," said a student, "and they will not do anything while here to prejudice their futures back home." Privately, and to British friends they can trust, they sound off like...
Cambodians last week streamed to the polls. Wild Phnong tribesmen rode their elephants down from the hills; baby-toting women in sarongs streamed into dusty towns; saffron-robed Buddhist monks padded through the silent ruins of Angkor Wat. When the ballots were counted, Prince Sihanouk had won a total of 1,981,136 votes to only 133 for his exiled rival, 128 for the Communists and a puzzled 93 for No Opinion. His grand total...