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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS WEEK'S SNOWSTORM could have easily been scripted by French playwright Jean Anouilh. Sunday night, Act I, everything transformed--fences, archways, and street signs--into a campus-wide version of Zhivago's ice palace. But, over the next two days, the scene changed as the snow melted into sluggish tears, the tears turning into rivers of slush and mud. By mid-week and the final curtain, all had frozen. Ice. The trees--their branches torn and crippled and frozen--stood out in painful ugliness against a threatening...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Rehearsal | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

Anouilh's The Rehearsal opens amid a flurry of epigrams and bon mots, ends on a wintry note of bitter despair. Doing so, it settled into a little too much mawkishness for may taste. The direction, though, by Michael Murray, was superb. The first act and a half--free of the play's pathos--is a streamlined French farce, wittily delivered and swiftly played...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Rehearsal | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

Last July, President Johnson signed the Bank Protection Act, which requires federally insured financial institutions to take at least minimal precautions. The first regulation goes into effect this week, when banks must appoint security officers or risk $100-a-day fines. By 1970, banks must supply tellers with marked "bait" money, keep cash on hand to a "reasonable minimum," and install alarms as well as tamper-proof locks on exterior doors and windows. Banks are also urged to install cameras that take thieves' pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Outdoing Bonnie and Clyde | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...act promises to increase the already brisk sales of bank protection devices. At least 25 major companies make surveillance cameras and recorders that give instant replays. Noting that financial institutions have used similar devices and procedures for years, bankers question whether the federal act will reduce robberies. "It's like legislating against sin," says James B. Griffith, a vice president at California's 380-branch Security Pacific National Bank, which suffered 53 stickups last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Outdoing Bonnie and Clyde | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...employees group yesterday obtained authorization cards from Charles Warren, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 711 of the Retail Clerks International. Under the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, 30 per cent of Phillips' employees must request collective representation in order to hold a union election. If 50 per cent then vote for a union in the election, Phillips is legally bound to bargain with that union...

Author: By Ruth Glushien, | Title: Book Clerks Plan to Picket Phillips Store | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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