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Dates: during 1960-1969
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You see the progress of your situation in terms of the instantaneously huge distance between you and the airplane. Because the airplane is turning and accelerating and because your downward speed is accelerating while your forward velocity is decelerating due to wind resistance, the airplane loses the meaning it once...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

The director, Milos Forman, appears in a film clip at the beginning of the movie to give an idea of what his film is about. He says that when it came out in Czechoslovakia, forty thousand firemen resigned, and in order to appease them he had to say that the...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: The Firemen's Ball | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

So one is led to watch the film just for itself, without any greater meaning, and that is easy to do. The characters in the movie are all the kind of people you would never think twice about to understand. None will even remotely remind you of Julie Christie; and...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: The Firemen's Ball | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

Here's a message for the worn and haggard, the wretched sleepless legions who play pinball until their thumbs are numb and even that game loses its meaning. Not only does somebody love you people, but they want to talk to you. Tomorrow. In the CRIMSON Supplement, which is something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREE | 11/19/1968 | See Source »

In the twelve-month preceding adoption of the 1967 act there were 51 legal, reported abortions in the state. In the following year there were 407, or 11.6 abortions per 1,000 live births. That compares with about 660 legal abortions per 1,000 live births in Japan (where modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Report on Liberalized Abortion | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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