Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tennis Players Buchholz, MacKay and McKinley are not the only ones that need "a swift kick in the pants." We should start with those responsible for allowing these "kids" to represent...
Though barred from Sister Fabiola's wedding, Jimmy has been swift to capitalize on it. He boasts that in Belgium alone, 600,000 copies have been sold of a record containing his compositions entitled Fabiola and Waltz of the Queen. His next ambition is to appear on Ed Sullivan's TV show. He has already written and sold his "memoirs" to a French feature syndicate. Sample: "It is true that, unlike my worthy sisters and brothers, I don't lead a well-ordered life, monotonous and without the unforeseen. But why do they throw rocks...
Despite its needlessly bloodthirsty climax-the machinist, like Wotan, gives up an eye to gain his triumph-The Angry Silence is a grimly impressive critique of the mass mind. Guy Green's direction is sure, direct, forceful. Bryan Forbes's script is swift, cogent, vernacular. But Hero Attenborough's performance is the best thing in the picture. He is so ordinary it hurts, but then his ordinariness is an essential part of his significance. Anybody, he seems to say, anybody at all can stand up on his hind legs and live his own life if only...
...swearing on court, hitting balls into the stands, and even heaving their rackets at spectators. Snapped Australian Tennis Boss Norman Strange: "Disgusting. In 36 years of tennis I have never seen anything so bad as their court behavior." Another official suggested that the young Americans, particularly Buchholz, needed "a swift kick in the pants." After Sirola's win, the Australian press gleefully reported that the Americans blew off steam in their dressing room by knocking a couple of holes in the wall. Later they enlivened an airline flight to Sydney by throwing around wads of toilet paper, managed...
...DIVERSIFICATION will keep Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. from expanding into sales of nonmeat products such as fish, vegetables, flour, sugar, cigars, china and furniture. U.S. District Court reaffirmed 40-year-old antitrust decree that bars the big packers from entering retail trade, which they want...