Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spanish Director Luis Bufiuel is 68, deaf and an acknowledged alcoholic; he has claimed that this-his 27th picture-will be his last. True or not, Belle de Jour is a fitting capstone to the curious career of an unpopular but near-legendary film maker whose favorite themes have been anticlericalism, madness, fetishist fantasies and the wilder frontiers of sex. The Belle of this story is the masochistic wife of a successful young Parisian doctor who finds relief from her marital frigidity by working part-time in a whorehouse-not for conventional kicks but for the delicious indignities involved. Since...
Ratings-wise, as they say at the networks, the first half of the 1967-68 TV season has been seismographic. In one recent six-week period, the Beverly Hillbillies jounced from the No. 1 position to 27th, Ed Sullivan from 19th to third, Dean Martin from 20th to seventh. Significance-wise, say the programming vice presidents, these sharp fluctuations signal the era of the "selective viewer...
Following the slight junior to the finish for Harvard were Baker in eighth place, John Heyburn, 18th, Tim McLoone and Dick Howe, 21st and 22nd, Bob Stempson 27th and Frank Sulloway 42nd. In the final tabulation. Coach Bill McCurdy's all-winning squad had 70 points to Navy's 80 and Yale...
...triumph vaulted State Representative Stokes, 40, son of a laundry worker, into position as a slight favorite to become the first elected Negro mayor of a U.S. metropolis in November. His opponent then will be Liberal Republican Seth Taft, 44, grandson of the 27th President and cousin of Ohio Congressman Robert Taft...
...Stokes wins the primary, he faces a strong challenge in the November election from Republican Candidate Seth Taft, 44, grandson of the 27th President and cousin of Congressman Robert Taft. A lawyer, Taft wants to bring municipal government closer to the people with 15 "branch city halls," promises to revitalize a sluggish urban-renewal program. He is an energetic and knowledgeable campaigner who would probably attract many normally Democratic votes on ability alone. But, in a race with Stokes, he would probably also attract many other Democrats who could just not bring themselves to vote for a Negro...