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...itself, there is a spate of demands that it be reviewed, reformed or removed. As a CIA man pointed out wryly last week, such criticism can only lead to great jubilation in the halls of Moscow's KGB, Department D-for Disinformation-the arm of Soviet counterespionage whose main function is to discredit CIA. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, when asked about increasing demands for heavier congressional surveillance over CIA, replied: "I don't believe in exploding our intelligence agency. The British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Silent Service | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Cloistered Eliot House has only one entrance. The House Committee has to struggle each year to obtain Finley's permission to leave open a gate leading to Memorial Drive. The main archway is guarded, fittingly enough, by a superintendent in a three-piece suit with a gold watch fob. Within this protective and comfortable setting, Finley has become a self-conscious anachronism who, though he may sound like a broken gramaphone at times, serves an important and colorful function as a symbol of Harvard past. He enjoys the role. "I sometimes see myself as a tree under which the arcadia...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: John Finley | 2/21/1967 | See Source »

Lethal Vapor. Anti-Sallal republicans have made three assassination attempts on Sallal in recent months, sabotaged the Soviet-built port of Hodeida, and frequently cut the main roads linking the cities. They have gunned down dozens of Egyptians from ambush and blown their Jeeps to bits with mines. So strong is the anti-Egyptian feeling that emissaries sent with bundles of cash to buy the loyalty of dissident chieftains have been murdered and the money returned-the latter a most unusual occurrence in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Revolt Within a War | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Like all other experimental art, the no-longer-underground cinema is sometimes silly or pointlessly shocking. And sooner or later, the experimenters will have to address themselves to what remains the movies' main function-intelligible storytelling. But with all its excesses, the new cinema is bound to stimulate the medium. For one thing, it has already produced a modest but substantial body of exciting work. For another, it serves as a salon des refusés for aspects of the art rejected by the commercial cinema. Even though many Hollywood directors write off the experimenters as no-talent amateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Art of Light & Lunacy: The New Underground Films | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...main proposal will be that the grading system as a creation of the faculty be eliminated and that each professor be permitted to grade the way he wants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, Columbia Professors Forced To Back Down on Grading Fight | 2/15/1967 | See Source »

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