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...South Africa, and ending a ban on political meetings. Mudge, a pilot who tirelessly flies his own plane around territory, told an audience of grim whites in the mining town of Tsumeb: "If we can't come to an understanding with them [the nonwhites], we might as well cancel the election and begin to oil our guns. You can't fight a war without gas and ammunition, and we don't have those things ... I have joined hands with them in mutual trust. I will walk the road to the end with them...
Monday night the cast elected Jacqueline Osherow '78 as the new director, Tim G. Atkeson '79, another producer, said yesterday. After Borowitz and Crist withdrew their works on Tuesday, producers and cast met and decided to cancel the show, Atkeson added...
...character is everything in Chandler's work. The plot of The Big Sleep is impossibly convoluted, turning ever more tightly in on itself as blackmail schemes keep multiplying. It represents a deliberate attempt by the author to cancel out, perhaps even parody, conventional detective story suspense. The idea was to hold the reader's interest with mood, dialogue and above all eccentric, not to say grotesque people. The fact that Writer-Director Winner has been more "faithful" to Chandler's story line than Hawks and his writers (among them, William Faulkner) is no virtue at all. What...
...were guilty only of misdemeanors. Cost: $22.50 per prisoner per day. The county paid $17 a day per room, plus $5.50 for meals for each of the inmates. While only one of the 254-room hotel's regular customers complained about the situation, an insurance company threatened to cancel the hotel's policy. What to do? The authorities simply released 25 prisoners on personal bonds...
...generation ago, NBC had to cancel The Nat King Cole Show because sponsors would not pay for blacks on TV. Now anyone who watches, say, the Monday night prime-time line up on CBS (Good Times; Baby, I'm Back) and tunes in other sit coms like The Jeffersons and What's Happening!! would think he was witnessing the greatest accumulation of blacks on TV since the March on Washington...