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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During World War II, the western dwindled in popularity, but the hero could pull more than one trigger. Wayne switched from Colt to M-l and became a screen soldier. He was a bit unsteady out of the saddle, but there was conviction behind his "Let's get the Nips!" rallying cry. Part of it came from his disappointment at missing the action. He was too young for World War I. As father of four, he was draft-exempt during the second. Still, he treasured a notion of himself in officer's garb. "But I would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...some Nairobi politicians. Mboya's task in the final months of his life was to find new candidates for the party and unseat its more corrupt elements; his mandate and his actions threatened some of KANU's old hands. Whether one of them asked Njoroge to pull the trigger or whether the assassin acted alone may well prove to be the crucial question of the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: A Kikuyu Suspect | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...offend just about everyone from the Pentagon to Pravda when he advocated "a battle to shatter the myth of Israeli military supremacy . . . one in which the Arab forces might destroy two or three Israeli divisions, kill between 10,000 and 20,000 men, and force the Israeli army to pull back even a few kilometers." When a barrage of public and private entreaties followed, Nasser reportedly passed the word to his friend to ease off, and "the battle" has not been mentioned seriously since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editors: Nasser's Pal | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

This kind of film is very hard to pull off, since a few moments of excess and we are trapped in an atmosphere as pretentious as the one being chide. Thankfully, Agnes Varda's style is clear and elegant, perfect for the balance necessary to make Les Creatures work. Her frames are clear and simple and her cutting so clean that the most outlandish of sequences (an indescribable interrupted eating scene) seems logical...

Author: By Terry CURTIS Fox, | Title: Les Creatures | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...moon is also a natural, orbiting Cape Kennedy. To blast off, a spacecraft need overcome a pull of gravity only one-sixth as strong as the earth's, and does not have to expend any energy to push through a thick atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOON: CAN THE MOON BE OF ANY EARTHLY USE? | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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