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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struggle for legitimate theater in Boston; a trip to the Charles Playhouse will convince you of that. You walk past some of the city's most picturesquely seedy boarding houses to get there, and during intensely quiet moments on stage, boistrous music from the night club next door throbs through the walls. The management has decided to charge major league prices but can only provide pony league leg-room and ventilation...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 10/1/1968 | See Source »

George Wallace, who had won his place in Alabamian hearts with his door-blocking stand at the University of Alabama, came out fuming when federal courts introduced the Freedom Of Choice plan. To outsiders, it didn't sound too threatening. It just said that any student could choose to go to any school he wanted; it seemed like basic American individual choice and everything good. But in the South, it posed an immediate danger: it meant that BLACK CHILDREN would be coming to the WHITE SCHOOLS. The white South had to act fast...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

...advice from ex-burglar Robert Earl Barnes [Sept. 6] in his illustrated booklet "How Safe Is Your Home from Burglars?" must be in preparation for a new rash of burglaries. If we followed his advice about changing the hinges so that doors opened out rather than in, it would be an open invitation for the burglar to simply remove the door rather than have to kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...provide them with basic guidance and direction, and to let them do the job. This requires surrounding the President with men of stature, including young men, and giving them responsibilities commensurate with that stature. Officials of a new Administration will not have to check their consciences at the door or leave their powers of independent judgment at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon on the Presidency | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...movie, Charles Whitman is Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly), a clean-cut gun-toting Boy Next Door who mutters his frustrations in asides such as, "You think I can't do any thing, don't you?"Bobby sets out to prove what he can do. He begins by methodically killing his wife and mother. Then, from an oil-storage tank and later at a drive-in theater, he coolly fires away at helpless motorists trapped in their cars. The slaughter does not end until Boris Karloff, stoically suffering through a prolonged cameo appearance as a fading horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Targets | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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