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...most lauded guest of the season will be Quincy House Man-of-the-Year, Arthur Penn, who has accomplished the rare feat of spectacular success on both stage and screen. His direction of Bonnic and Clyde was a film landmark, and he has just emerged with another movie great, Alice's Restaurant. Mr. Penn's earlier film credits include The Miracle Worker. Mickey One, and Left-Handed Gun, which will be shown during the Arts Festival. No less impressive have been a stunning series of theatrical successes which include Two for the See-Saw, Miracle Worker, and Wait Until Dark...
...that the château is "part of the national patrimony" and therefore fair artistic game. But he can hardly be too upset. The publicity has helped his show to sell out completely. As for De Marchéville, his little-known château is now a true landmark...
...foundation of the law was laid in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In it, the court held that officially segregated schools were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. It is often overlooked that the court did not order integration, the conscious mixing of the races in schools. Its ruling was negative: that legally sanctioned, or de jure segregation, which then prevailed throughout the South, is unlawful. All the court's subsequent rulings in the 16 years since have consistently followed this precept of "againstness" rather...
Steal the Buses. Ribicoff's candor drew high praise from diverse Senators. Stennis, understandably, called it "a landmark-a trail-blazing speech." Vermont Republican George Aiken termed it a demonstration of "courage" and even "nobility," while Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island agreed that many Northerners "have hypocrisy in our hearts-we go home and talk liberalism to each other, but we don't practice...
...guilty verdict against five defendants has almost incidentally become a landmark decision in the controversial trial. The verdict is the first decision under the famous "Rap Brown amendment" attached to the 1968 Civil Rights...