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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLES DE GAULLE had a genius for infuriating Americans on questions large and little. He frustrated grand designs for transatlantic harmony and military cooperation: he withdrew French forces from NATO, ordered U.S. troops out of France and built a costly independent nuclear deterrent, the force de frappe. Though a giant of his times, he could be petty on the smallest matter; three years ago, he refused to permit the annual memorial service for U.S. Army Sergeant Larry Kelly, fatally wounded in the liberation of Paris, to be held at the Invalides, the French national shrine that was its customary site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE FUTURE OF FRANCO-U.S. RELATIONS | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...later 1970s, NASA hopes to put up a giant "orbiting campus" that will remain in space for ten years, with twelve-man crews changing every six months. Eventually, the campus can be expanded to house a "faculty" of 100 U.S. and foreign scientists, including women as well as men, who would be ferried up and down by shuttle vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is the Moon the Limit for the U.S.? | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...following afternoon, in his Apley Court apartment, Ungaretti talked of how he could look forward to no future, of how his past was too enormous and confused. But as he spoke things only dimly known seemed to become realities. Giant figures of the past, obscured by the magnitude of their own reputations, had all been friends of Ungaretti's, and celebrants of his art. Collected in Il Tacciuno del Vecchio (The Notebook of an Old Man) is the homage of a generation: letters, essays, a poem by the Mexican Octavio Oaz and one by Henri Thuile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giuseppe Ungaretti | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

...feel it, Marcuse says, because you have not yet been co-opted by a system which offers physical comforts to everyone in exchange for freedom of soul and of action. Workers are co-opted and will not rise to join the students until they can be freed from the giant labor unions which are just as much a part of the system as are the monopolies. The task before us is to break down the giant system, to talk to people as individuals, not as workers or owners. Above all our task is to demonstrate the folly and hypocrisy...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Marcuse at B.U. | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

...rest on their performances; Robertson knew better. Starting in October 1968, ads on his behalf were placed in the trade papers. "Best actor of the year-the National Board of Review" they reminded readers. "Cliff Robertson is CHARLY," they trumpeted in full-page splashes. The campaign culminated in a giant double foldout inserted in Daily Variety. Its contents: 83 favorable reviews of Robertson from a spectrum of journals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trade: Grand Illusion | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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