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...tends to get lost when we find ourselves passively agreeing with it. The highlight of the ensuing presentation is the "Great Ceremonial Hotdog" award to Camelot's Franco Nero "for a zoom across two miles of field, up a castle wall and into his crotch while he sang 'C'est Moi.'" It's unfortunately the only highlight of an otherwise substandard creation...

Author: By Sam Ecureil, | Title: Lampoon Movie Worsts | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...German, British, French and Jap anese visitors peddling such industrial tools as airplanes, chemical equipment and textile machinery. Already half of Rumania's trade is with non-Communist countries, compared with only 20% a decade ago. Rumania's industrial pro duction grew 12% in 1968, the great est increase of any country in the Eastern bloc. The expansion was more than twice as rapid as that of Czechoslovakia or Hungary, and it exceeded the U.S.S.R.'s growth rate by one third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania: Turning West | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...meeting Cornell for the fourth time this season after it plays WCHA champion Michigan Tech in the consolation game of the NCAA tournament at 2 p.m. (MST) today at the Air Force Academy Rink in Colorado Springs. WHRB will begin its broadcast of the contest at 3:55 p.m. (EST...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Harvard and Michigan Tech Meet In Consolation Contest of NCAA's | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

...dark of the night. All across the war-weary country, South Vietnamese were sleeping off the revelry of Tet, Viet Nam's long est and happiest holiday. This three-day Tet had passed peacefully, unlike the nightmare of the year before, when more than 36,000 of the Communists' finest assault troops smashed into South Viet Nam's cities and towns. Then suddenly, in a whoosh of rockets and thud of mortars, the nightmare seemed about to begin again. Barely 19 hours after they had ended a self-imposed, week-long Tet truce, Communist gunners launched coordinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A GRIM REMINDER THAT THE WAR GOES ON | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...familiar one in Russia. A crowd of friends and supporters of the accused had come, laden with bouquets of red tu lips and yellow daffodils. Forbidden to attend the closed trial, they huddled in the freezing cold, waiting for a chance to express their sympathy with the lat est victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having left her handbag, containing copies of a protest against the ar rest of a political dissident, in a taxi. The charge: "Preparing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Flowers for Irina | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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