Word: p
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CALLING himself S. P. Eagle and operating some-what nefariously out of a yacht anchored several miles off the French Riviera, producer Sam Spiegel decided to film The African Queen with a script by James Agee and direction by John Huston. Legend has it that Spiegel signed the two by assuring each that the other was committed to the project, then obtaining bank financing by claiming that both were signed. Everyone fell for the bait and Spiegel made the deal. Regardless of the percentage of actual fact in this story, Hollywood attributes to Spiegel a pretty fair job of wheeler...
...Revolutionary Development Support) estimated that 82% of the population of 5.3 million lived in secure hamlets, some 13% in contested hamlets and only a scant 5% under hardcore Viet Cong hegemony. "We're still in a state of flux concerning recent losses or gains," says CORDS Deputy John P. Vann. "We're not sure what resulted from drawing in over 6,000 R.D. cadre and some of the regional and popular forces to province and district towns." But the estimates are that Communist real estate and population gains will be small in III Corps. Civilian casualties were also...
...countless U.S. colleges, angry students have threatened to disrupt their campuses in confrontations with administrators on the issue of student power. But not at the University of Pennsylvania, where the question is purely academic. In what President Gaylord P. Harnwell approvingly calls "a quiet revolution," carried out with neither malice nor militancy, students have been ushered into the corridors of power, and at Penn they now wield more control over their destinies than do their peers at other schools of its size...
...second crew consisted of Captain Leverett Saltonstall '14 in the bow, James Talcott Jr. '14, Henry Meyer '15, William and Henry Middendorf '16, David P. Morgan '16, Louis Curtis '14, Charles C. Lund '16, at one to seven and Coxswain Henry L. F. Kreger...
...Ministry--composed of chaplains from 12 Cambridge churches--will make no attempt to talk students into opposing the draft. "We don't intend to have any stated view towards the draft," said the Reverend Charles P. Price. "We are here to clarify issues and help students make up their own minds about the draft rather than to direct them to a certain end," he added...