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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training, I got to thinkin' way back to the farm in Beaufort, S.C.," recalled Frazier, one of 14 children. "I thought about the days I ate raw turnip butts and radishes with dirt on 'em. Then I thought about how I will retire undefeated with a million dollars and go into business as a singer." He thought, too, about Quarry. "He bleeds," said the ex-butcher. "He cuts. I expect we'll see some more of his blood...
...became a hit. His first film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, proved to be an erratic success notable for its mature dialogue and some puerile performances. By comparison, The Graduate was as mixed as its reviews. Only the audience was unanimous: box office grosses totalled over $50 million. Now completing Catch-22, Nichols seems to have recognized his past errors...
Vote of Confidence. Troubled Harvard is getting fewer gifts, but more money. A preliminary accounting showed that Harvard College had received a new high of $3.4 million-$87,-000 more than last year. Dartmouth's 50th-reunion class ('19) produced what is expected to be a record sum for the class. Fund Chairman Richard Lombard also reported a "financial vote of confidence" by some Dartmouth men who had refused to contribute for as long as five years. Denver University's Chan cellor Maurice Mitchell, who expelled 39 sit-in demonstrators last year, recently inspired a torrent...
...peak of his parabolic career, Westbrook Pegler was among the best-known figures in U.S. journalism. Carried by 186 newspapers, his column reached 12 million readers, who reacted with anger or admiration or a blend of both. When he died last week in Tucson at the age of 74, Pegler had long been in eclipse. Only a handful of newspapers bothered to remark editorially on his passing-the ultimate slight to a journalist whose caustic style enlivened his times...
...shipments to the U.S. accounted for more than two-fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved U.S. businessmen contend, is that Japan has been flooding American markets with goods made at far lower wage rates than any U.S. company could get away with paying. Some $400 million worth of textiles were notable among those exports. Southern Congressmen have set up a rising clamor for quotas to restrain the influx, and the textile issue has become a symbolic...