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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Palau's growing impact was demonstrated during the closing days of the Dominican crusade, when he flew to strife-torn Colombia to address a "Banquet of Hope" attended by 2,500 civic leaders. The principal guest, Colombia's President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, showered Palau with congratulations. He responded with a blunt plea for the Colombian elite to turn to God and foster a spiritual reawakening. The Colombians who arranged the banquet, Palau told TIME, think that "the only ideology that can stop Marxist-Leninism or the disintegration of our society is Evangelical Christianity...
Phillip Berrigan will give a keynote address at a teach-in on "Nuclear Arms and Energy: Security or Insanity" at 7:30 p.m. in Campion Auditorium from 10 to 4. Both buildings are on the main campus of Boston College...
...ridden Roosevelt, paralyzed by polio in 1921, painfully attempts to stand erect without supports of any kind. Grimacing in agony, Roosevelt hesitantly rises from the chair, straightens his posture, and...does it. The significance of the accomplishment does not go unnoticed. Confident of his ability to stand firmly and address an audience, Roosevelt agrees to enter the 1928 New York gubernatorial race, embarking on a path that would lead to the White House four years later...
...President ran into his largest protest demonstration since taking office as he arrived at Los Angeles' Century Plaza hotel to address a $1,000-a-ticket dinner dance. Some 2,500 Imperial Valley farmers paraded with tractors, pickup trucks and buses, waving signs pleading for "fairness to farmers." They wanted presidential support against a court action that enforced a long-ignored 160-acre limitation on farms watered by federal irrigation projects. A thousand more demonstrators protested other issues, including the neutron bomb, inadequate welfare programs and high unemployment. Carter used his speech to defend his record, including his controversial...
Equus is an even more tedious movie than it had to be. Usually an energetic film maker, Director Lumet (Network) seems to have thrown up his hands on this one. He shoots Shaffer's original stage script as is, to the point of having characters address monologues directly to the camera. The play's gory climax-the blinding of six horses-is rendered realistically, not mimed as it was onstage. Rather than enhance Equus, Lumet's fidelity to the text accentuates every flaw...