Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Demetrio Vallejo, railroad union strike leader, Communist Leader Dionisio Encinas, Red-lining Newspaperman Filomeno Mata. The Mexican constitution states that for such crimes as social dissolution the interval between indictment and trial can be no longer than twelve months. Yet Unionist Vallejo has been in jail for 20 months without trial, and some of the others have been out of action even longer...
...track at Penn State, no one knows how fast he can go, but the answer is plain to every safety man who has ever tried to catch him from behind. Says Baltimore's Coach Weeb Ewbank: "Lenny runs just fast enough." So do the other top breakaway backs. Without them, professional football would be a far less exciting game...
Such an answer would have astonished and perhaps irritated the assembled newsmen had it come from Eisenhower's Press Secretary Jim Hagerty. But it caused no fuss coming from Pierre Salinger, a pudgy, 35-year-old father of three who looks naked without a cigar clamped between his teeth. Reporters admired Hagerty's, efficiency; they personally are fond of Salinger, consider him their friend and ally in the incessant scramble for news...
...aftermath is merely delayed. Two months later it becomes apparent to the village doctor that every Midwich woman of fertile years is pregnant-apparently without the assistance of a man. What, the village wonders, was responsible for the mysterious impersonal rape of Midwich. for this ominous plural parthenogenesis? What great beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Midwich to be born...
Many U.S. moviegoers will never learn the fascinating answers to these peculiar questions. Apparently assuming that a picture with only one star (George Sanders) of second magnitude could not possibly be any good, M-G-M is hustling Village around the neighborhood circuits without even bothering to give it a Broadway sendoff. It is missing a good bet. Based on a clever thriller (The Midwich Cuckoos) by John Wyndham and made in Britain for about $500,000, Village is one of the neatest little horror pictures produced since Peter Lorre went straight...