Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Director Larry Peerce has produced some rare moments of social criticism in this film, but he frequently slips into burlesque. Nevertheless, Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw are always around to save the show with skillful performances...
Fulfilling his campaign promise of a biracial government, Evers searched for whites to help fill a few vacant positions. Every white official save the fire chief had quit rather than serve under a black administration, though Evers was able to enlist a white policeman. Mostly, the town's whites, who account for one-third of Fayette's 1,600 citizens, grimly ignored the new regime. Says Marie Farr Walker, editor of the weekly Fayette Chronicle: "People do a lot of talking among themselves, but that's about...
...thrown in jail. The Bird is now on trial for, of all things, obscenity. I don't have to tell you that this stuff against the Bird is political suppression. But through it all I truly believe that it's the hip cultural movement that's eventually got to save the South. The South so eagerly gobbles up everything that's shiny and new in America. Right now it's Playboy Clubs and Tastees. But they drink our rock music, too. That's where we'll start to get them--through what they think of as being their...
...Montgomery. Hitchhiking back from picking up a new water pump, we got a ride from a big smiling native Brazilian para-medic in his air conditioned Volkswagen bus with two little children. During the week he flies over to Vietnam and parachutes into the combat areas to save the wounded soldiers. He does stuff for them right there while the shooting is still going on, and then flies all the way back to San Francisco with the men. Sometimes while he's on the job, they live for a while in the Phillipines, Taiwan, and Japan. He's parachuted...
...whole man." Ads showed a beaming passenger, comfortably pil lowed and covered with furry blanket, addressing himself to martini, steak and a copy of Realties. In April, Gehnrich Associates kicked off a campaign for RCA Global Communications, aiming to get across the point that a businessman can often save himself an over seas trip by sending a telex message instead. Headline on the RCA ads: "Why send the whole man overseas just to give someone a piece of his mind...