Word: brockman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead, its brick-bearing walls rise just five stories high, and the 750 rooms all look inward over landscaped patios with gardens and glistening pools. Why? In part because the owners, the Western International hotel chain, wanted to build something different in Mexico City. Another reason, according to Jose Brockman, president of Western International Hotels de Mexico, "a high-rise hotel would have cost three times as much as a low one and taken twice as long to build. We wanted the Camino Real ready in time for the Olympics...
Having promised the best film-making of the New American Cinema, Brockman and the Festival directors refused to pay transportation costs of bringing Stan Brakhage and his films from Colorado to New York. This infuriated New York independent film-makers Jonas Mekas and Gregory Markopolous, both of whom led a campaign to stop other New American cinema-makers from exhibiting their films at the Festival. Denied access, therefore, to Brakhage's "Scenes From Under Childhood," and Markopolous's "Galaxie," the best Brockman could come up with were the films of Harry Smith, an avant-garde film-maker of some decades...
...Cornell's eventual triumph over the Crimson in the Heptagonals in New York City--but a scant two point margin--falls to erase the impression that the Harriers met a run-of-the-mill team that was inexplicably up for the day. In winning, the Big Red's Frank Brockman bettered his previous best over the course by more than a minute. The top Crimson runner, as usual, Mark Mullin, beat Crimson great Dyke Benjamin's time of two years ago by some ten seconds, but it wasn't enough...
...Brockman, Mullin and Fitzgerald were running abreast after a mile, but by the two-mile post Fitzgerald had dropped back to fifth. With the race about half over, Mullin led Brockman by a few steps, with Fitzgerald still fifth and Hamlin in sixth place...
...pack left the Cornell golf course and went into the woods, Mullin and Brockman were fighting for the lead, but the Cornell ace came out of the trees with a slight edge. Brockman continued to increase his margin and won going away by 50 yards. Mullin had to fight off a determined challenge by Diegnan to take second by 15 yards...