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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard University has been extra-ordinarily fortunate to have Franklin Ford as dean during the past seven and a half incredibly demanding years." Pusey said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Dean Will Serve Brief Term | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...very-nice, and so-human, and not-a-bit-standoffish. But it was the other small people who were surprising: they too were the way they're all cracked up to be by worried mothers and column-writers. One was a girl who made her living as an extra. She had what amounted to a routine acting job-"except it's very hard to get work." This stint in Watson Rink was even duller than most, she told me, but still it's not a good way to earn a living. "It's just once you begin...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...asked her if working so closely with Preminger made any difference to her career. "Oh it's fun, and I learned something all right. But being a star.... There are so many people all wanting the same thing. I'm still just an extra-on call when somebody asks the agency for a young woman...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...wasn't in SAG (Screen Actors' Guild) but whose brother's roommate's friend shared an apartment with Marty Richards or something like that: he was being an extra and helping with the paperwork and taking an entrepreneur's holiday all at the same time. During the nights he runs a nightclub in Boston, but that is by no means all. He has enough pies to use up toes as well as fingers: an electronics firm in Massachusetts with outlets in Long Island, some real estate deals, and of course eventually he will take over his father's business...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Calley volunteered for extra duty in Viet Nam after his regular one-year tour was over. He came back with a Bronze Star with cluster and a Purple Heart, and thought seriously of making the Army a career?"until this happened." Bearing a charm bracelet for his youngest sister, a ham for his father and a couple of bottles of liquor for his buddies, Calley returned home on leave from Viet Nam last Christmas.This was nine months after My Lai. Tony Massero, a high school friend, says: "He didn't seem like he was nervous or in some sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Average American Boy? | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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