Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Oscar-winning Darling, now team to bring Hardy's brooding novel to the screen, with outstanding performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp...
...black day for all of us," said John Davies, director general of the Confederation of British Industry, after emerging from No. 10. The Observer called devaluation "a brave act," but most of the British press took off after Harold Wilson's scalp. "This is D-day for Britain without the flags," said the Sunday Mirror. "The 'D' this time stands for disaster and disillusion as well as for devaluation." Since Wilson had consistently denied that he would ever devalue the pound, many Britons felt betrayed as well as disheartened. "I am quite shocked," said Sir Patrick Hennessy...
...Monica, Calif., for divorce from English Stage Designer Tony Walton, 33, her husband since 1959. In a formal statement more notable for brevity than syntax, Julie explained that "the varying demands of our careers have kept Tony and I apart, placing obvious strains upon our marriage." Another obvious strain, Director (The Pink Panther) Blake Edwards, 45, has recently acquired his own divorce, and will presumably be at hand when Julie's decree becomes final in a year...
...impresario will be lanky, Connecticut-born and Yale-educated John Ireland Howe Baur, 58, the museum's associate director and the man who was in charge of getting the new Whitney Museum built. Baur plans to continue the museum's open-minded policies, expanding them in order to ensure broader representation of artists from outside New York City. "There's a bubbling over of creative energy in every direction today," he says, "and the injection of new talent and new movements gets more frenetic all the time. However, new movements tend to overshadow artists doing good work...
...such advances sufficient to win the overall battle? No, says Professor Kingsley Davis, director of international-population and urban research at the University of California. Davis, in the Nov. 10th issue of Science, writes that the family-planning programs as presently conceived and executed cannot prevent the world from rapidly populating itself to doomsday...