Word: brights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Managing a bright mien despite a strep throat, Tricia Nixon arrived in Norfolk, Va., last week to be crowned Queen of the annual Azalea Festival. Tiny Tricia (she's working at bringing her weight up to 100 Ibs.) went through an exhausting round of receptions and luncheons in a series of winsome minidresses, then gave the town fathers and mothers a mild shock by showing up for the coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White...
...seems, the black demand cannot be ignored by a nation that views education as salvation-indeed, as the key to bringing Negroes into the mainstream of U.S. life. Ironically, colleges have helped to bring the problem on themselves. For years, select colleges accepted a token handful of bright Negro students from relatively privileged homes. In effect, they blackballed ghetto youths for alleged failure to meet white academic standards. Now the colleges have broken their own rules (often smugly) by seeking "disadvantaged" Negroes, many of them straight out of the ghetto. The eight Ivy League colleges, for example, have just accepted...
...producer of children's films, Joseph Strick, 45, is less skilled than Radnitz. His prior movies have been fare that kids could scarcely see, much less comprehend: Ulysses, The Balcony, The Savage Eye. In Ring of Bright Water, he reverses himself and locks out the adults with a tale that makes The Three Bears seem Byzantine...
...requisites for motion pictures: 1) a star with fur, 2) adults who look foolish (as Merrill does when he tries, by flapping his arms, to teach a gosling to fly), and 3) no love scenes except those between otter and otter. The result is little otters, making Ring of Bright Water the best sex-education film ever to get a G rating...
Then, in 1951, Calkins moved to Cleveland. Some of his political associates there, with a note of civic deprecation, say they still do not understand why Calkins left Boston, Harvard, and the East for industrial, unattractive Cleveland. As a bright young man who had just been a clerk for a Supreme Court Justice, Calkins could easily have stepped on the escalator to success in law or government...