Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Valdei Is Coming offers little besides its star. Continual editorials about racism give the film contrived relevance. Edwin Sherin's direction may best be described as functional: the members of the cast do not bump into each other. Still, the late Frank Silvera provides a poignant closeup of a peasant with aristocratic sensibility. The rest of the hard-nosed crew are sufficiently malignant to villainize five spaghetti westerns...
...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, has joined with about 50 widely-known public figures to establish a National Council for an Indochina Deadline (NCID). The group will work for a total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina by the year...
...COMMITTEE on Rights and Responsibilities will soon announce its decision in the case of Allen S. Weinrub, a graduate student in Physics who has been accused of conspiring to prevent a speech by Edwin H. Land, president of the Polaroid Corporation, at Harvard last month. Given the facts of the case, the CRR's task is clear: a prompt acquittal of Weinrub, coupled with an unequivocal refutation of the very nature of the charge...
...Edwin Land's speech was not obstructed, nor was it threatened; it was cancelled by a group of Physics professors who wished to spare Land a verbal confrontation on Polaroid in South Africa. About 60 protesters had gathered at an impromptu meeting which Weinrub chaired, and they had voted to approach Land before his scheduled talk on colorvision. At an earlier meeting of scientists in New York, Land had been publicly questioned for the first time on his company's business activity in South Africa, and he had been badly upset by the experience. The professors-several of them...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) may not have heard all the reasons for the cancellation of the March 8 lecture by Edwin H. Land, president of Polaroid Corporation...