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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven-man staff, and Dubček's main duty will consist of overseeing Czechoslovakia's $44 million in trade with Turkey. Meanwhile, the campaign against liberals continued in Prague. Josef Smrkovsky, the former president of the National Assembly who was Dubček's closest ally, was stripped of membership in the federal legislature, his last state function. Ten other liberals were also forced to resign, thus virtually completing the purge of deputies who remained loyal to Dubček. But the struggle is far from over. Some Czechoslovaks expect a bitter battle over economic issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Diplomatic Exile | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...production seems to squelch almost everyone connected with it. Only René Auberjonois as a faggy designer manages to filch an occasional moment of amusing exuberance. A number he does called Fiasco is the closest thing Coco has to a show-jogger-and is all too apt as a one-word critique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: All Work and No Play | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Krause downed the talented Cy Miller in the butterfly in 2:07.0, and in one of the night's closest races, Horvitz touched out a fast-finishing Steve Thomas of Brown in the 100-free. His time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swim Team Downs Brown, 59-34, For Fourth Victory Without Loss | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

...resemblance to persons living or dead is purely unmistakable. In appearance, Cockeye obviously recalls Ben Turpin, and Billy Bright subtly evokes Buster Keaton. In actuality, the melancholy story is closest to that of the late Stan Laurel. The bitterness of The Comic arises from an incident in 1963, two years before Laurel's death, when Van Dyke decided to mimic Stan in his TV series. "We wanted to pay him for the rights to use his character," recalls Reiner, then producer of the show. "And we found that the rights belonged to another human being. The rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Burned-Out Star | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...closest match of the contest still was never in doubt for Harvard. Ed At-wood won all three of his games at number five but was pushed to 15-10, 15-10, 15-11 scores. Fritz Hobbs, Fernando Gonzales, John Ince, and Pete Abrams registered routine victories...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Varsity Squash Trounces Cornell; Crimson Ends Match in 27 Games | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

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