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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circulated that Yellow* contained some of the most detailed sex scenes ever spliced into an overground film. Grove Press, which imported Yellow from Sweden, issued a paperback copy of the script "with over 250 illustrations," many of the sort that usually come in plain brown wrappers. Now, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Yellow may be shown uncut, and moviegoers can confirm all the rumors for themselves. They are true. The chances are, however, that viewers who expect a titillating kind of 1,001 Scandinavian Nights will be disappointed. For all its well-publicized explicitness, Yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Dubious Yellow | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...walked through the store, John was followed every step of the way by closed-circuit TV cameras that transmitted his image to a monitoring room upstairs. He found the Protectalarm, pulled out his checkbook, and waited patiently while a new clerk figured out how to work the still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Long Day in the Frightful Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...tradition. During his reign he maintained one of the more ostentatious harems in the Middle East: the number of concubines averaged from 80 to 120, and agents in Beirut and other capitals kept it well-stocked. To facilitate his choice of companions for the night, he reportedly installed closed-circuit television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Death of a King | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

FREEDOM INDUSTRIES currently competes in the supermarket and the electronics business. The Freedom Electronics and Engineering plant employs 33 full time workers, making computer power supplies, and assembling coaxial cable and plastic circuit boards. Opened in October 1968, the plant already has assembly contracts with Digital Equipment Corporation, RCA, and Western Electric, amounting to $800,000 gross sales. Bent on developing the division to the point where it is competitive with similar operations outside the ghetto, Williams predicts that gross sales will double over the next two months...

Author: By Nancy C. Anderson, | Title: A New Power In Roxbury; The Ghetto Means Money | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

Died. George ("Gabby") Hayes, 83, who played the whiskery, whisky-soaked sidekick to the heroes of some 200 horse operas during his 32-year movie career; in Burbank, Calif. Though a tenderfoot from the old vaudeville circuit, Gabby became a paradigm of the comical coot who sprayed Bad Guys with tobacco juice and such shattering epithets as "You goldarned son-of-a-prairie varmint!" He made 22 Hopalong Cassidy films with Bill Boyd, rode with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and nearly stole the show from John Wayne in the classic Tall in the Saddle (1944). Said Hayes: "Gabby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 21, 1969 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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