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...Demment made up for this slip with a slap shot from eight feet inside the blue line that had lit the lamp before Cohen could move. Jack Garrity applied the finishing touches to the triumph when he converted a loose puck from a long shot by Smith that Cohen couldn't control...
...last fall was for little Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani, off in New York greeting the Pope, making speeches and generally cutting a bella figura as the first of his nation to be honored with the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly. Then-omen of trouble-came the first slip: he fell on an icy New York sidewalk, mildly injuring...
...until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which began last week. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backed the Republicans and Royalists respectively, appealed to the delegates to continue the talks. But the Yemenis simply began to slip away. With their departure came the fear that the shooting might start again, for both sides have kept forces in a state of combat alert. Egyptians and Saudis immediately began strengthening their joint peace-keeping force in Yemen, and Nasser canceled his plans for a long-postponed troop withdrawal. "Historically...
Luckily, Director Guy Green (The Angry Silence, The Mark) has a knack for sustaining the sort of idea that in lesser hands might easily slip from pathos into bathos. Green's style is simple, forceful and true, and he habitually activates a performer's most astonishing inner resources. The prize of his present cast is 21-year-old film fledgling Elizabeth Hartman. Spindly and coltish as Selina, with a plain-pretty face that can erupt unexpectedly into electric beauty, she wins genuine sympathy by playing up the spunk in her role, playing against the saccharine. She is achingly...
...been fed as well as possible, had not been required to do overly hard labor, and had been given books to read, Red Cross packages and mail from home. Both insisted that they had not been subjected to any form of brainwashing; but the Viet Cong representative did let slip that "the good discipline of the prisoners" had been a major factor in granting their release...