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...BEACON HILL: Juley Dassin's NEVER ON SUNDAY is not as good as he thinks it is, but it nevertheless must rank as well as one of the ten best foreign films of 1960. Despite an excruciating musical score, a didactic plot, and some rather pointless satire about American do-gooder schnooks, the movie must be admired for its brilliant photography and obvious zestful enjoyment of Grecian peasant life--and, of course, its week-night diversions. Evenings...
...crowd--"mostly beat types"--will then carry the mustached Rexroth on their shoulders from the station to Beacon Hill's Louisburg Square, where he will read one of his revolutionary poems, Blair said. Rexroth will give a reading sponsored by the Harvard Advocate in Sanders Theater tomorrow night...
Amid the muffled clank of advancing legal artillery and the kindling of beacon fires from pulpit and platform, the U.S. was lining up for a major debate over federal assistance to religious schools. Ironically, the commander of the forces opposed to aid for private schools was the nation's first Roman Catholic President, and his principal opponents were the hierarchy of his own church...
...stating the reasons for his veto, Governor Volpe echoed arguments heard previously from local citizens and legislators who opposed the bill in letters, on Beacon Hill, and in a large demonstration at the foot of the memorial...
...sought a room for a Liberian friend. For two days Freeman and friend sought shelter at houses which sported room-for-rent signs. At each they were turned down; at each the landlord explained that the room had been leaned that morning or the night before. All along Beacon Street and Newbury Street the students hunted for a room until finally, after almost two days of rejection, Freeman realized that the vacant rooms were occupied one after another not by coincidence, but by prejudice...