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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their performances in supporting roles, Martin Balsam got an Oscar for A Thousand Clowns, and Shelley Winters got her second (her first, in 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank) for A Patch of Blue. The only other notable awards went to Czechoslovakia's The Shop on Main Street (best foreign-language film) and To Be Alive, the Johnson's Wax film first shown at the New York World's Fair (best short documentary). Bob Hope, rewarded with a gold medal for his long years as an outstanding entertainer, then declared: "This meeting of the Great Society stands...
True Value. The markup from wholesale to list price of course provides the main bargaining grounds for the buyer. In the competitive haggling, the dealer can say that he is discounting the list price of the car in question. Also, the buyer may be led to think that he is getting a good deal on the old car he is trading in. How can he determine whether he is getting a good trade-in price? It makes little, if any, difference if the trade-in car has only a few thousand miles registered on the odometer, whether it has good...
...Bingay, 23, who started running a couple of years ago to keep company with her husband, a former Tufts University half-miler now in the Navy. For some reason, she got to like it. So she hid in bushes near the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass., waited until the main bunch of runners had disappeared before launching herself onto the course. To disguise her sex, she wore a hooded blue sweatshirt, but when that got too warm, she peeled down to a black swimsuit and Bermuda shorts. For a good portion of the race, she jogged alongside Alton Chamberlain...
...face of a Boston terrier, Brewer has been a regular on the pro golf tour since 1956. He has won eight tournaments and $208,000, but most of his triumphs occurred in such obscure events as the Mobile Sertoma Open and the Hawaiian Open. Actually, Brewer's main talent is for losing-the hard way. He has finished second twelve times, and he has lost three out of five playoffs during his pro career. Now Gay has set some sort of record for frustration by losing two big playoffs in a row-to Jack Nicklaus...
...those who come to see he secretly and are afraid to tell people that they take drugs for fear of losing their jobs. "Most people," she claimed, "Would not be against you just because you take LSD." Bringing psychedelic out into the open is presently Miss Bieberman's main aim as director of the Center. "How are we going to make LSD respectable if everyone is so paranoid about it?" she asks...