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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defenestrated Deputies. The regime's bad days at Cipolletti erupted not over high policy but a relatively modest 80-mile, $2.8 million road that was to be built in the Andean foothills. The road was the pet project of Governor Juan Figueroa Funge, 66, of Rio Negro Province, who proudly announced it at his inauguration in Viedma last Au gust. It was also the pet peeve of out spoken Mayor Julio Dante Salto of Cipolletti, 600 miles away. Salto, 55, called the road "folly," and urged that the money be spent on other projects...
...permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in August. It was quite a birthday gift for the museum's 100th anniversary. The value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly 3,000 objects are of a kind and quality no longer obtainable on the art market, making it impossible to assess their true value. Besides paintings (such masterpieces as El Greco's St. Jerome as Cardinal and Rembrandt...
...villas. In a memorandum to the U.N., they argue that the palace, "while a noble monument, is totally un suitable" and that The Hague has never become the world law capital that idealists once envisioned. Embarrassed, the Dutch government has renewed an offer of a new site plus $12 million to ward construction of a new building. Meantime, the Swiss government is offering a scenic site in Lausanne...
...writers spent more than a year turning out an adaptation that is remarkably faithful to Galsworthy. Presented on Sunday evenings at 7:25, the series became such a craze in Britain last year that many clergymen rescheduled evensong services in order to avoid losing their congregations. An estimated 17 million viewers tuned in each week. Hostesses had to schedule dinner parties around the series. Sunday night bingo attendance slumped. It even became something of an international obsession. In New Zealand, cricket matches began an hour earlier. In Yugoslavia, where the series was aired, new editions of Galsworthy's works...
...people survived, only to be done in by the tricky, pseudopsychological script. That disaster may or may not have been a harbinger of ABC's remaining 24 movies of the week, since they will come from many different producers. Generally, they will run cheaper (all 25 cost $16 million) and shorter (80 minutes without commercials) than conventional features. Films specially made for TV can develop into series, witness last season's Then Came Bronson and Marcus Welby, M.D. TV fans who watch the TV flicks of 1969-70 will probably get a foretaste-and a forewarning...