Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next scene: Graves, who is the brother of Gunsmoke's Jim Arness, browses through photos of available M:I agents. He invariably chooses Barbara Bain, the group's sexy smoke screen; Martin Landau (in real life Barbara's husband), master of sleight of hand and disguise; Greg Morris, ace engineer; and Peter Lupus, strong man. The team sets off to the rescue without informing the audience of its plan-which is always a variation of the con game. Each operative wins the enemy's trust by playing a separate innocent role; together, they catch the villain...
...time. Last week at its annual midyear meeting, the A.B.A.'s house of delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt the standards proposed more than a year ago by a special ten-man committee (TIME, Oct. 7, 1966). Led by Justice Paul Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the group had proposed some stiff rules; the delegates adopted every...
...Agreed to take part in a $1.5 million tutoring and scholarship program, funded partly by the Office of Economic Opportunity, that is designed to encourage Negroes and other minority group students to go into...
...group's real virtuosity is collective rather than individual. Sorting like musical pack rats through a patchwork of influences, they piece together witty collages that throb with asymmetrical rhythms and fierce intensity, yet never neglect an unashamed capacity for lyricism. "We are playing jazz that represents our particular generation, time of life and background," says Burton. "The people who have been the major influences for the past five to ten years are now getting to be over 40. We're less traditional than they are, but we're not out to destroy traditions like some avant-garde...
...solos" in which he flails the air without hitting his drums, is now working on "a more multidirectional pulse that suggests infinite rhythmic feelings, so that the listener chooses the bar lines. It's like Jackson Pollock's painting." And Swallow, the most venturesome composer of the group, wants to pursue such directions as those he charted in General Mojo Cuts Up, in which the players improvise over a five-minute mélange of taped music, then pile their instruments into another impressionistic fancy while the tape is repeating. "Jazz," he says, "has to mutate in order...