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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sims, Jay and Edwin Williams, Capital reporter for the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat Times, supported the formation of a National Press Council to act as a watchdog for the news industry. Williams explained that the Council would near complaints of individuals against the national news media and would consider issues relating to the freedom of the press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman Fellows Denounce Press Law | 3/29/1973 | See Source »

...editor of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Miss. yesterday urged an immediate focussing of American political and journalistic energy on the issue of race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mississippi Editor Says Focus On U.S. Racism Is Imperative | 3/28/1973 | See Source »

...cherishes his characters. Blanche Tyler, a blowsily sensual gypsy medium, is commissioned, innocently enough, to locate Shoebridge as the heir to a fortune. Amiable George Lumley, a garrulous middle-aged failure, does Blanche's detective work for a fee-and a night in bed. Then there is Miss Rainbird, a conventional spinster and country heiress out of Jane Austen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...timing of the strike. Last week marked the middle of the term. Many courses had already scheduled hour exams for this period. Students who might otherwise have struck were justifiably unwilling to miss their exams. Moreover, they were reluctant to cut lectures immediately preceding exams. Time that might have been devoted to leafleting and picketing was spent studying and writing papers...

Author: By William Englund, | Title: The Strike as a Legitimate Tactic | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...Little Miss Innocent" was a little more appealing, and in a perverse sort of way, it summed up the Crimson fencing season. First of all, the filmmakers had escaped the Puritan confines that had restricted the efforts of the cameramen in "A Hard Man." And to top it off, the flick had a plot. (Well, sort of a plot.) In a nutshell, it goes like this: Mr. Hip, a rich, chic, handsome man in gold Cadillac convertible, picks up two nubile young girls hitchhiking on the road. They ride with him to the end of his driveway and then depart...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 3/21/1973 | See Source »

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