Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allegedly obscene film is the work of a famous author, does his repu tation make the work "socially impor tant" and, therefore, not obscene? No, ruled the California District Court of Appeal in the case of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The French scatologist's literary fame "does not provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself...
Progenitor of the aerotrain is 49-year-old Engineer-Designer Jean Berlin, who in August 1965, after eight years at the drawing board, received a $600,000 grant from France to build and test his invention on a 31-mile stretch of unused railroad track between the villages of Gometz and Limours. Bertin, who already had the backing of a $1,000,000 company made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped...
Married. Eugene Paul Getty, 34, third son of Oil Magnate Jean Paul Getty, who works for his father in Rome; and Talitha Pol, 26, Dutch-born beauty and aspiring actress, stepgranddaughter of British Painter Augustus John; he for the second time; in Rome...
James Joyce and Richard Condon, John O'Hara and James Michener, Philip Roth, Budd Schulberg, Saul Bellow, Robert Penn Warren. In 1960, when Cerf acquired the house of Knopf, the names of Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Hersey and John Updike joined the parade. Cerf's biggest book of the year is the 2,059-page Random House Dictionary of the English Language, which took a decade and $3,000,000 to put together. Amazingly, for a reference book, it has been on the bestseller list for six weeks, and the first printing...
Getting Even. A basic problem, insist Education Professors Jean Grambs and Walter Waetjen of the University of Maryland, is that "women literally do not know that they use words differently, structure space differently, perceive persons and reality differently from men." They may not be aware that they "value neatness and cleanliness above intellectual initiative," and tend to be "not only more prejudiced" than men but "more dogmatic about their prejudices...