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After four widely acclaimed books, a vivid CBS-TV interview and a celebrated meeting with President Johnson, Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer, 65, has become a hot literary property. So the Manhattan-based Ledger Syndicate asked him to do a newspaper column. His first response to Ledger President John W. Higgins was a resounding no, but he finally relented. An impressive 214 newspapers have now signed up for his weekly column called "Reflections...
After this past weekend's Ivy action, the Bruins are all alone at the top, by virtue of their 5-2 shellacking of Cornell. Combined with the scoreless tie between Penn and Yale at New Haven. Brown's victory leaves it with a 4-0-1 league ledger with Penn right behind at 3-0-2. The Crimson (now 3-1-1) are tied with Cornell for third...
...cases last week, the court summarily applied the First Amendment to protect a group of girlie magazines banned by Louisiana, and a group of Danish homosexual magazines impounded by U.S. Customs because they were illustrated almost entirely by front views of nude males. On the other side of the ledger, the court refused to review the conviction of a sculptor in Miami who had been fined $100 for displaying in his backyard six large statues of couples engaged in various normal and aberrant sex acts. The court broke no new ground, but neither did it give...
...other side of the ledger, riots will incur the following costs upon the Movement...
...occupying the major theaters. "Road shows," says 20th Century-Fox President Darryl Zanuck, "have put motion back in motion pictures and put the industry back in high gear." It was Zanuck's exploitation of the road show, beginning with The Longest Day in 1962, that turned the Fox ledger's $40 million loss that year into a $12.5 million gain in 1966. Altogether this year, the studios will release eight road-show films, next year at least ten. Last week half of Variety's top ten grossers in the U.S.-Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sand Pebbles...