Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson now has before him for signature a law just passed by House and Senate requiring that all federal juries be picked at random from rolls that fully reflect "a fair cross section of the community" without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin or economic status. Since Johnson requested the bill, there is little doubt that he will sign it most happily...
UFOs-IDENTIFIED by Philip J. Klass. 290 pages. Random House...
...story comes in spurts, with snatches of documentaries thrown in at random. Robert (Yves Montand), the hero, spends most of his time wandering around the world making television documentaries. Admittedly, Robert is not a bad television documentary producer, but the horrors of Vietnam are not relevant to the love story that should be the core of the film. One can only assume that these sequences are thrown in as Contrast, but the contrast is too great to have any meaning to the audience. Half the time you are watching a French Flick, and the other half you are watching...
...Universal. Most tragic, Welles was sent in 1942 to South America to film a color documentary shortly after the completion of Citizen Kane; after Welles had shot thousands of feet of film, RKO withdrew financial support, recalled Welles, and put his uncut footage into the vaults. For years unidentifiable random shots from the film, It's All True, turned up as stock footage in Latin American thrillers, the only Welles color footage thereby becoming scattered and hopelessly lost...
...HOLOCAUST by Nora Levin. 768 pages. Crowell. $10. WHILE SIX MILLION DIED by Arthur D. Morse. 420 pages. Random House...