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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the Committee's report, tire Institute, "similar in scope to the Center for International Affairs or the Kennedy Institute of Politics, will bring visitors who are identified with Afro-American affairs to Harvard and will provide extra-curricular seminars and summer research grants in Afro-American affairs to students at the University...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Afro-American Department Offers Seventeen Courses | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...admitted, were actually produced by a thick layer of frozen carbon dioxide, otherwise called diy ice. How did the embarrassing error occur? Only when he checked out the experiment in his laboratory, Pimental explained, did he learn that a thick layer of dry ice could produce spectral characteristics similar to those of methane and ammonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planetary Exploration: What Mariner Really Saw | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...building a much-discussed new state capitol beside the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. More soberly, the Legislative Council has commissioned The Brookings Institution to recommend how best to invest the interest that the money will earn, and Governor Miller has asked the Stanford Research Institute to undertake a similar study. Beyond that, Alaska has another 800,000 acres to put up for bids whenever it wishes, and will collect 90% of the royalties from any oil produced on federal land within the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RICHEST AUCTION IN HISTORY | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...than the sum of its parts, many of which abound with vitality and cinematic invention. Scorsese choreographs his camera movements with an exhilarating, easy grace, and his dramatic use of rock 'n' roll (the film's title comes from a 1958 hit by the Genies) surpasses similar efforts in The Graduate and Easy Rider. Such fragments are bright enough to make Who's That Knocking-and more important, Martin Scorsese-worth watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Almost Making It | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

Coppola's other films (You're a Big Boy Now, Finian's Rainbow) have been overloaded with a kind of lighter-than-air dramaturgy, and The Rain People sadly falls victim to similar sentimental pretentions. The relationship between Natalie and Kilgannon derives from Of Mice and Men, and much of the dialogue is sophomoric Salinger, as when Kilgannon explains that "the rain people are people made of rain. When they cry, they disappear altogether because they cry themselves away." Still, the geography is simply splendid. Coppola seems to sense that lying between the Hudson River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Only Geography | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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