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...though, is turned in by Veteran Ruth Gordon as the coarse and cozily evil Minnie Castevet-sniffing for information like a questing rodent, forcing Rosemary to drink her satanic tonics of herbs, dispensing that old Black Magic that she knows so well in a voice that sounds like a crow with a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Rosemary's Baby | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...group marched on the Supreme Court, whose decisions have done much in the past decade and a half to secure the rights of all minorities. Their aim: to protest a decision upholding the convictions of 24 Indians for violating fishing regulations in the state of Washington. Led by George Crow Flies High, a Hidatsa chief from North Dakota in buckskin jacket and pants and full-feathered headdress, the group ignored a statute banning demonstrations outside the court. Indian women let out war whoops. Others cried: "Earl Warren, you better come out now." Demonstrators defiantly sprawled over imposing marble statues, splashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TURMOIL IN SHANTYTOWN | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

When the roof of a Fort Worth building began to cave in beneath his feet, the first thing Building Wrecker Walter J. Piper did was to throw away his crow bar. The act came within a quarter of an inch of taking his life. Sliding down a beam as the roof fell, Piper, 69, plummeted onto the 5-ft.-long, l-in.-thick tool, which had lodged point up in a pile of debris. The crowbar rammed through Piper's scrotum, smashed his pelvis, punctured his intestines, stomach, diaphragm and a lung before stopping within a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: Pluck, Luck & Skill | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...newspaper refers to as "burly white youths" or "students of considerable athletic attainment"--jocks. Various deans and other father surrogates separate the two factions. Low Library is locked. For lack of a better place to go we head for the site of the gym in Morningside Park, chanting Gym Crow must go. I do not chant because I don't like chanting...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

...South. A natural sympathy for a beleaguered people becomes perverse when so distorted, and especially so when the actually beleaguered happen to live south of the DMZ. Mr. Collingwood was fed dog out of the admiration of his hosts-perhaps because he is willing for the U.S. to eat crow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1968 | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

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