Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...footage shot more than 50 years ago, on nitrate-base film, has already deteriorated, and those films that were not transferred to more durable acetate are lost to future historians forever. Film archives are in a general state of disarray. There is no comprehensive international film catalogue listing credits, content, and location of prints, and it seems unlikely that much will be done to rectify this deficiency until historians begin to realize that valuable material is rotting before their eyes. An efficient listing of existing prints might encourage more historians to examine films, but only a broader academic acceptance...
More Guts. A year later, Brown found his short cut to the top. Still helped mightily by his name, Brown was elected California's Secretary of State, traditionally a sleepy sinecure for men content to shuffle documents. But Brown, using the latent powers of the office, began acting more and more like the state's Attorney General. He sued three oil companies for making illegal campaign contributions. Today Brown runs against Exxon nearly as vigorously as he does against Richard Nixon; he has accepted no contribution from a major oil company-not that many have been offered. Says...
...people down at Brown, it seems, spend most of their time hoping, praying, dreaming for a championship football team. But judging from the squad's start this season, those wishful-thinking folk in Providence will just have to be content with another championship soccer team...
During the hour-long meeting, the three organization members tentatively agreed to support a rescheduling of "Birth of a Nation," providing the showing is accompanied by a thorough discussion of the film's racial content. Bozer said yesterday that the showing would take place about November...
...statement yesterday, Cambridge Police Chief James F. Regan gave no comment on the content of the report, but he announced that Officers Francis Burns and Robert Ahern would be summoned before a departmental panel. If found guilty, Burns and Ahern could face punishment ranging from a reprimand to expulsion from the police force...