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...metropolitan centers, real estate developers are pushing suburbia farther and farther into the countryside. Out in the deserts and woodlands, people who want vacation homes are scrambling to pick up pieces of the good earth. They are being joined by speculators, who have rediscovered in real estate the fast-buck thrills that a droopy stock market rarely provides. Citizens are taking seriously the advice of Humorist Will Rogers: "Buy land. They ain't makin'any more...
...next evening about a hundred Congressmen came to the state dining room for no other reason than to try to buck up the President and try to heal the breach between the Hill and the White House. There were the splash of good bourbon over ice and the low, mellow rumble of men talking politics. Now and then the President seemed almost stunned that there was so much affability left in his world. A grateful Nixon thanked the men for coming, noting, "If people run away from politics, we will never have good government...
...Onion Field is the anatomy of an infamous 1963 Los Angeles cop killing. The facts are arresting enough: Gregory Powell, an ex-con, and Jimmy Smith, a gun-shy black junkie looking for a fast buck and a quick escape from his "batty" accomplice, wheeled off on a stickup spree−and kept getting lost somewhere among the freeways. This oddest of couples−Powell wearing a joke-shop disguise, Smith petrified that the pistol stuck in his belt might go off and destroy his manhood−made one U-turn too many and were stopped by a pair...
Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman plays the kind of role only a Nixon could dislike in this tale of a one-man fight against the cruelties of a southern chain-gang. His attempts to buck the system make him something of a charming Christ figure to his fellow prisoners. Unfortunately, Pontius Pilate has always had the last laugh in this kind of Christian symbolism, and resurrection wasn't written into the script. If you liked Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, you won't want to miss this. The supporting cast is good too, with George Kennedy...
...Divinity School; 65 Francis Ave., Chase N. Peterson, vice president for Alumni Affairs; 81 Irving St., Martin Karplus, professor of Chemistry; 114 Irving St., Don K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government; 138 Irving St., Douglas Schwalbe, managing director of the Loeb; 9 Kirkland Place, Paul H. Buck, University professor, emeritus; 11 Kirkland Place, William Doering, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry; and 12 Sacramento St., Mrs. K.D. Brady, no employment record with the University...