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...seen in a remarkable Buster Keaton retrospective soon to go on a U.S. tour. In it are 21 two-reelers and ten features, many unseen for decades. The show, produced by Film Curator Raymond Rohauer, began one afternoon in 1954, when Keaton, then 59, invited Rohauer to inspect his garage in Los Angeles. "I want to put some electric trains in here," said the man who had never grown up. "You want this stuff?" The "stuff" turned out to be Keaton's masterpieces, filmed on ancient-and explosive-nitrate stock. "I begged him to put out his cigarette before...
...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, will inspect housing conditions in the Medical School area this afternoon with the members of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Association...
...groves since 1960, Austin said, he awakened to the migrant workers' plight only in 1968, after he had begun reading about Cesar Chavez's drive to organize California grape pickers (see THE NATION). Austin sent J. Lucian Smith, president of Coke's food division, to inspect the Florida groves. Smith reported back to him that the workers' living conditions "could not in conscience be tolerated by the Coca-Cola...
...registering a vote against the high quotas. Otherwise, the whaling nations would just go and do what they wanted without taking heed of any restrictions at all, which would be much worse." As it is, the major whalers-particularly the Russians-steadfastly refuse to allow international observers to inspect their operations, so no one is sure that quotas are not sometimes exceeded...
...winter days, when golden and toothy John Tunney seemed to have the sun to himself. After all, Big John's picture had been all over the newspapers, blood running from his nose and gasping for breath after diving 175 feet into the polluted Santa Barbara Channel to inspect the oil damage. Hey. the kids will dig that. How could he lose...