Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnabv Conrad, 46, raconteur, painter, film maker and bullfight aficionado, has just published what has got to be the ultimate in do-it-yourself books. Title: How to Fight a Bull...
...horses, and whole flocks of chickens have been killed in unprovoked attacks by the queens' offspring. Dogs, cats, turkeys and pigs have died. Last month a swarm descended on a group of children playing in a park in Niteroi, across the bay from Rio. Firemen had to fight them 1 with flamethrowers. In another city a police dog diverted a swarm attacking his eight-year-old master, saving the boy but dying of multiple stings a half-hour later...
...Americans, it is the other people who live in this country. The laws and principles of the nation far outdistance the population's desire to observe them. The effect that the looting of stores and the destruction of homes and lives has upon these people does not help the fight for equal opportunity. The cause gains little when a Negro robs a liquor store or steals a television set; it is hurt tremendously. I question whether replacing the disrespect and unconcern that white America has shown for the Negro with fear is progress towards the end of racial prejudice...
Visually, Planet of the Apes is just as senseless. The ape community looks to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, on an off-day. A lengthy fight sequence between Heston and the apes achieves next to no continuity because director Franklin Schaffner fools around too much with the camera. But the apes themselves, if a cut below their remarkable prototypes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, could easily be worse--with lousy makeup or lousy actors. Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and Maurice Evans are the best...
Since then, it's been an uphill fight for RUS. Its first attempt at constitution-making provided some disappointments, but no real surprises. Two days after the election, Mrs. Bunting had said that the RUS platform calling for complete RUS "autonomy"--specifically, the power to change its own rules without administration approval--would probably be rejected by the Council because it was "inconsistent with College regulations." On January 8, she announced that the Council had rejected the constitution, because it was "inconsistent with College regulations...