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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Note--"Richard II" plays through September 15 in alternation with "As You Like It," "Love's Labour's Lost," and Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion," which will be reviewed in subsequent issues. The drive to the picturesque grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances tend to begin promptly at 2:30 and 8:30 in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Richard II' Has Highly Engrossing King | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...that have been proposed. The commission's mandate, set in 1965, grew out of a 1959 Army Engineers report that predicted an eventual filling of at least another 248 square miles of bay, in effect reducing much of it to little more than a deep-channel San Francisco river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Fighting to Save San Francisco Bay | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...boat. But for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Harvard began to build last year. After a somewhat poor fourth in the North American championships, the heavies recovered to finish second in the European championships to West Germany's Ratzeberg crew. Now, in their training room along the Charles River, the Harvard crew members have Mexican travel posters on the wall, and a printed sign on the shower-room door: "On to the Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Defeats Vesper | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...mortar radar along the eastern edge of the DMZ, where the zone is bordered by the South China Sea, had indeed showed blips that looked like slow-moving, low-flying aircraft-like helicopters. American artillerymen had also reported sighting a series of strange moving lights near the Ben Hai River, the dividing line between North and South Viet Nam. Artillery and aircraft promptly opened fire on the targets and the blips disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Great Helicopter Mystery | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise, as Wayne had promised a heroine in a movie, to build her a home "at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melancholia, U.S.A. | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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