Word: run
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen (who shared the authorship of this zany crime flick) has the star (an inept criminal played by Woody Allen) go through so many bungles that the film loses much of its comic momentum. However, the director (Woody Allen) sustains it all by providing some insanely funny moments...
...second thought: perhaps a permissive social attitude toward homosexuality could serve as an element in the population-control picture over the long run...
...Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible." The brusque, unsigned order declared: "The obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school...
...defense of his earlier tirades. "A little over a week ago," Agnew told the party faithful, "I took a rather unusual step for a Vice President. I said something." And again: "I have no regrets. I do not intend to repudiate my beliefs, recant my words, or run and hide...
...armed with a folding-stock M-l carbine, changed Flight 85 from a routine run into a fantastic flying hegira that led all the way across the U.S. and then over the Atlantic to a bizarre conclusion in Rome. All through its strange progress, the changing track of Flight 85 compelled the attention of the earthbound: the FBI, air-traffic controllers, and-quite understandably -President Forwood Wiser of TWA, who sat out the 17-hour ordeal with other top company executives at the airline's Manhattan headquarters. Said a Federal Aviation Agency official: "That flight was handled...