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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...induction will be spaced out instead over the final three months of this year. At the same time, Nixon announced that if Congress does not act promptly on proposals for draft reform that he submitted last May, he will institute most of them by executive decree (see box, opposite page...
...opening session of the General Assembly, a dour-faced old man stood across the street holding aloft a hand-lettered sign: THE U.N. is A FARCE. Nobody seemed to take notice except a group of high-school students waiting for a bus nearby. One of them tore out a page of notebook paper, scribbled a few words on it and hoisted his rejoinder: DON'T KNOCK...
With the country supposedly quiet, the Washington Post could turn the attention of its editorial page to matters of less moment. Or so it thought. After it ran an editorial supporting the anti-bra movement among women and even suggesting that "men blatantly exploit women as consumers" by foisting off such an unnecessary item of apparel, the Post got a chiding letter from an unexpected source. Wrote Elder Statesman Dean Acheson: "What traitor or fifth columnist on your staff embittered the war between the sexes by blaming men for the bra? Even as a boy looking at pictures of Boadicea...
...trend toward revivals, The Front Page is reopening this fall and will be joined by Harvey (James Stewart) and Our Town (Henry Fonda). An all-American series at Lincoln Center's repertory theater includes The Time of Your Life, Camino Real, Beggar on Horseback, plus Sam Shepard's new play, Operation Sidewinder, a wild satire of the contemporary U.S. scene, featuring an Air Force computer in the form of a sidewinder rattlesnake. Comedy is in short supply, but Mike Nichols is directing The Memorandum, a French farce about a determined bachelor and the girl who upsets his ordered...
...forty-minute address electrified the audience at M. I. T. and several days later the Globe printed the entire text on its editorial page. The paper was deluged with requests for prints, and eventually distributed more than 85,000 before discontinuing printing it because of costs...