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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Southern segregationists suffered another rebuff last week from the Supreme Court. Last fall, in Holmes v. Alexander, the court told 33 Mississippi school districts to desegregate "at once." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit carried out that order by giving the districts only until Dec. 31. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Setbacks for Segregationists | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Admirable though it is, her work does not work, precisely because it is all work and no play. She gets little help. Andre Previn's score always misses, without ever swinging. Beaton's costumes are a slight modification of the timeless Edwardia that he prefers to inhabit, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: All Work and No Play | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

The production seems to squelch almost everyone connected with it. Only René Auberjonois as a faggy designer manages to filch an occasional moment of amusing exuberance. A number he does called Fiasco is the closest thing Coco has to a show-jogger-and is all too apt as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: All Work and No Play | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Beginning Feb. 1, Abel will preside over a faculty embittered by more than a year's debate over a successor to Edward Barrett, the former dean. Barrett resigned after the turbulent student disorders of 1968, protesting "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers" at the university. He left behind a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dean of a School Divided | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Charles de Gaulle once likened him to Mephistopheles. Françoise Giroud, editor in chief of L'Express, said that he was "as gracious as a cactus." The New Yorker's Genêt noted his "cold genius for integrity." Others have described him as an "instrument of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: As Le Monde Turns | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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