Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schools in New Brunswick, N.J., hard hit by vandalism and racial turmoil, were forced to close for a day last October when Chicago's Continental Casualty Co. refused to renew coverage. Elsewhere, premium rates are rapidly inflating. Atlanta's school fire insurance costs rose from $60,000 to $200,000 last year. Nolan E. Allen, business manager of the Indianapolis school system, wonders about the reasoning behind insurance. "A company says that it wants to take care of you when there is a risk," he muses. "But when you do have a risk, it says goodbye...
...Hard Day's Night brings the Beatles to the screen...
...Redskins learned another bit of Lombardi orthodoxy as well: Make your own breaks. Against Philadelphia, Defensive End Carl Kammerer belted Quarterback Snead so hard in the end zone that the ball popped loose. Rookie Lineman John Hoffman dived onto the ball for a touchdown as the 'Skins went...
Once aboard, Darwin proved immensely industrious. He climbed volcanoes and was shaken by earthquakes. He brooded upon such things as the social organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...
...Alone. This extraordinary historical footnote has been refined and condensed into a hard, gritty new movie called Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. Writer-Director Abraham Polonsky makes good use of all the obvious contemporary parallels but deliberately holds them in check. The result is a subtle, intense document of racial persecution that stands as one of the finest films of the year...