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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between faulty characterization and movie-mag exploitation. The choice of Peter Sellers as Sir Guy is bad enough without making him as much like David Niven as was humanly possible. One suspects that Niven wasn't cast only because Sellers has more experience delivering inane lines. Sellers tries to invest his practical jokes with a little humor by varying his voice, letting it range all the way from aristocratic nasality to extreme aristocratic nasality...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: The Moviegoer The Magic Christian | 3/13/1970 | See Source »

...President Pusey answered investment critics very bluntly that "Our purpose is just to invest in places that are selfishly good for Harvard. We do not use our money for social purposes...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Harvard Alters Look To Handle GM Issue | 3/11/1970 | See Source »

...competition, called "Operation Breakthrough." Last week, months behind his original schedule, Romney picked 22 companies to build 2,000 mass-produced houses and apartments in ten cities. The winners, chosen from among 236 proposals, will share HUD contracts that may total as much as $50 million and will also invest some $40 million of their own money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Belated Help | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...coming out only once every two weeks, instead of once a week, as originally planned. But it is earning enough now to cover its current printing costs (if not much else), and its circulation and advertising revenues are increasing. Meanwhile, the staff hopes to find new, smaller backers to invest in the paper...

Author: By Jeremy S. Bluhm, | Title: The Phoenix: A 'Writer's Paper' | 2/27/1970 | See Source »

...With the world going to hell in a handbasket what with overpopulation, air pollution, water pollution, the destruction of natural resources, war, racial hatred and famine, some clown had to invent -and invest millions in-ads that smell. As if they don't anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1970 | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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