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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to conclusion). A poverty-stricken British naval commander (James Mason) concocts an ingenious plot to have the newspapers call him a traitor so he can sue for libel in A Touch of Larceny (1960), co-starring George Sanders and Vera Miles...
...long been our annual custom to take a thorough look at the U.S. economy-its performance in the past year and what it is likely to do in the year ahead. In our shop phrase we call it "the year-end business review." This week it takes the form of a cover story, written by Marshall Loeb and edited by Champ Clark, on one of the most astute money managers...
...getting the Communists to any conference table. In fact, an increasing number of experts think that the war could end without any formal negotiations at all. Writing in the current Foreign Affairs, former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, now president of the Ford Foundation, speculates that the Communists may quietly call it quits once they become convinced that U.S. power and perseverance will deny them victory. "If the Communists do decide that their present purposes exceed their capacity," says Bundy, "may they not prefer a private decision to a public admission...
...payroll. He is a fugitive from his own district, where he faces a year and four months in jail for defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee; he even faces a challenge to his seating in the next Congress. As if all this were not enough, a House subcommittee last week conducted three days of closed hearings...
...still forbidden for a cadet to hold a girl's hand when he walks her on campus. But beneath the surface sameness, the Point within the past five years has undergone a drastic, evolutionary change to match the new ways of what its teachers like to call "the profession of arms." Harsh hazing and pointless indignities have given way to a more mature approach to discipline based on respect for the individual student as a potential leader of men. In the same spirit, a curriculum once narrowly limited to engineering and military skills has broadened into a liberal-arts...