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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STOLEN KISSES. Another chapter in the cinematic autobiography of Francois Truffaut, this perfect little film chronicles the adventures of the hero of The 400 Blows during the last months of his adolescence...
FRANCE In the final days of campaigning in the first round of France's presidential elections, the two major candidates seemed to be following The Making of The President, 1960 chapter by chapter. Interim President Alain Poher put away his steel-rimmed glasses that had turned into hundreds of tiny distracting mirrors during his TV appearance, and adopted the horn-rimmed nonreflecting kind. Gaullist Georges Pompidou had his bushy eyebrows trimmed to improve his on-camera appearance and turned on a whirlwind, U.S.-style campaign, crisscrossing the country by helicopter and executive jet. Offering a something-for- everyone platform...
...four of the suits, had many dismissed and settled 47 out of court for a total of $340,000; nearly 60 are still pending. All this attracted the attention of Ralph Nader, the one-man consumers' lobby. He devoted the first chapter of his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, to an attack on the Corvair. During a series of congressional hearings, Nader followed up by calling the Corvair "the leading candidate for the un-safest-car title." The assault was lethal; sales plummeted from 220,000 in 1965 to 14,800 last year...
...metamorphosis in the 20's and 30's, evolving into swing and big band dance music, and later into bop and progressive jazz. Most collectors in the 40's thought that the traditional black jazz of New Orleans remained only on a few early discs as a faded chapter in the history of American music...
...Beta Kappa has announced the election of the Junior Twelve of the class of 1970. This is the first year that Phi Beta Kappa has elected 12 instead of 8 juniors. When the chapter's constitution was re-written last year, the Senior Sixteen was also increased...