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...showings to make up their minds, called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...
...outraged the late Chicago Daily News Critic Lloyd Lewis, who found him a "blab-mouthed, satyr-eyed kid" who "toys with physiology, pathology and pruriency, tossing them about with all the freedom of a delinquent boy." On television, acutely conscious of his juvenile following and of the strait-laced National Broadcasting Co., Berle keeps it clean...
...victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
Prince Charles of Edinburgh would soon be officially on the map: his grandfather okayed plans to give the name "Prince Charles Strait" to a channel between Elephant and Cornwallis Islands, in the Antarctic...
Concern over the nation's security threatens to put "our basic freedom, freedom to thought, into a strait jacket," Professor Kirtley F. Mather told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night at Jordan Hall. Mather's talk was entitled "The Threat to Freedom in the United States...