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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dutchman is a racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a volt jolt from the third rail. Adapted for $60,000 from LeRoi Jones's one-act play, the film describes in 55 minutes the brutal brief encounter between a black man and a white woman who meet in a subway car somewhere under Manhattan. The man (Al Freeman Jr.) looks like a young intellectual; the woman (Shirley Knight) acts like a maniac in a miniskirt. Smiling and snarling, she flops down beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Stage to Screen: Murder, Madness & Mom | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Sophomore phenomenon Anil Nayar (one) wowed the packed galleries with a 15-6, 15-8, 15-10 victory. Jose Gonzalez (two) had brief troubles with Yale's Chris Gadsden before winning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Beats Yale, 7-2, Takes Ivy Squash Title | 2/27/1967 | See Source »

...compilation of a slim white 8-in. by 10½-in. document that is delivered to the White House in a black CIA car every evening between 6 and 7 o'clock. It bears CIA's emblem stamped in blue, is entitled "The President's Daily Brief," usually runs between three and six pages of single-spaced type, and covers the key intelligence "get" of the day. At times, it may have included such fascinating data as the results of a urinalysis pinched from a Vienna hospital while a major world leader was a patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Silent Service | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...trust early and, except for one brief episode-- with which he clearly had nothing to do--kept it. One reason is that he knew, as any good arbitrator does, how to hold his counsel, and when not to hold...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Guiding Goldberg Through Harvard: A Tense Drama that Ended in Dullness | 2/23/1967 | See Source »

Kramer described Sachar's address in an interview tonight. After praising the students' conduct of the boycott, the President launched into a brief history of the 19-year old institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brandeis President to End Crowding; Boycott Wins Added Gen Ed Courses | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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