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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subcommittee of the Education Committee of the Massachusetts legislature, headed by Rep. Joseph M. Kearney (D-14th Suffolk Dist.), passed a resolution to investigate the activities of instructors at UMass who allegedly "overtly encouraged" students to resist the draft...
...Games to 200 million people around the world. One sport and one athlete will dominate everyone's attention. The sport is Alpine skiing-with its hurtling downhill races and snow-spraying slaloms. The athlete is France's Jean-Claude Killy, an innkeeper's son from Val d'Isère in the French Alps, whose élan and ebullience have made him an almost legendary figure...
...farms for murder and robbery, identified one of the skeletons as Jake Jackson, a Negro whom he had helped bury on Christmas Eve, 1946. Prison records indicated that Jackson had "escaped" two days later. Around Labor Day in 1940, he said, "they killed a bunch of them-I'd say about 20." Asked why the men had been murdered, Johnson said: "For money. You need money to make it here." Often he had to pay $2 or $3 a week for protection himself...
...Gawd," says Joy, as she walks wearily home through a London slum to her sordid flat and the petty thief she lives with. "If anyone saw me now, they'd say, 'She's had a rough night, poor cow.' " She has had more than that. But no need to worry; the important thing about this poor cow-and this film-is that the rough nights and days cannot get either of them down. Despite its scruffy scene and downhill theme, Poor Cow is not really another of England's angry proletarian tragedies. The film tells...
...works as a barmaid and as a nudie model for the kind of moist-lipped amateur photographers who don't use film in their cameras. Then she begins taking men to bed more for fun than profit. "If I turned professional," she tells a chum, "I'd lose the pleasure of it." Joy dreams about Dave and visits him regularly, but when Tom gets out she lets him move in with her again...