Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. There are equally generous doses of blood and poetry in this raucous western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both an uncommonly fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the very best Hollywood directors...
...Agnew declared that the nation's next major space goal should be a manned landing on Mars by the end of the century. Critics immediately retorted that the Vice President's extraterrestrial ambitions were outrunning the nation's means. Last week the President's task group on post-Apollo space objectives -which Agnew happens to head-made its chairman sound uncharacteristically cautious. It said that the U.S. could send men to Mars in the mid-1980s for not much more than the $24 billion Apollo program...
...short-lived. A new wave of firebombings swept the town early this summer, forcing the resignation of Police Chief Carl Clutts. The new chief, William Petersen, made some progress toward cooling the conflict when he took away the deputy status that had been granted the White Hats. The group disbanded, but resurfaced almost immediately in a new organization, the United Citizens for Community Action, whose leader, Lumberman Robert Cunningham, is considered excessively racist even by local white supremacists...
...Huskies Larry Joseph and Mike Scanlon were the main reasons for Crimson concern in the varsity competition, but at the two-mile point on the five-mile course, a group of five Harvard runners swept by Joseph, the leader at that point. The race effectively ended after that...
Wald also said yesterday that another of his speeches, given in May before a Washington meeting of a group called Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace, had been made into a film...