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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the 82-item agenda consists of housekeeping chores, budget reports, filling administrative vacancies, etc., but many perennially sticky matters lie ahead. African nations will continue to press for punitive action against Portugal (for its policies in Angola and Mozambique) and South Africa (for apartheid). In fact, before the week was out, more than half of the Assembly-the Afro-Asian bloc plus the Communist nations-walked out when South Africa argued against putting apartheid on the agenda...
Shadow of the Bomb. The historians of the new cinema, searching out its origins, go back to another festival, the one at Venice in 1951. That year the least promising item on the cinemenu was a Japanese picture called Rashomon. Japanese pictures, as all film experts knew, were just a bunch of rubber chrysanthemums. So the judges sat down yawning. They got up dazed. Rashomon was a cinematic thunderbolt that violently ripped open the dark heart of man to prove that the truth was not in it. In technique the picture was traumatically original; in spirit it was big, strong...
...EDUCATION. In the "gigantic task" of reducing illiteracy and building schools fast enough to keep pace with population growth, the government is spending $246 million this year, the biggest single item in the budget, and well over the $205 million of 1962 and $169 million of 1961. In the past 2 years, 82 million free textbooks were distributed; another 30 million will be published next year. New classrooms are being built at a rate of 4,390 a year-twelve...
Another basic low-priced item in any U.S. coin collection is proof sets-packets of specially polished samples of the half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and penny sold by the U.S. mint for $2.10. About 200,000 of the proof sets for 1960 had a smaller-than-average zero in the date on the penny, and the price for these has bounced within the past few weeks from...
...many wholesalers and grocery chains by stopping Hunt's longtime private-label canning for them to push products under Hunt's own name. After the war, he decided that the best way to make Hunt known Nationally was to concentrate his advertising and promotion on a single item. He chose tomato sauce, and launched a major campaign that eventually captured half of the U.S. market for Hunt...