Word: skirmishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LESSON IN LOVE. The gutsiest and funniest of Ingmar Bergman's battle reports on the war between the sexes. DREAMS. A second Bergman skirmish, almost as uproarious and rather more deeply ironic, in the same campaign. THE VIRGIN SPRING.Bergman's latest picture-a dark and moving miracle play that comes to a climax in a rape that is also an annunciation...
Died. Prince François de France, 25, second son of eleven children of the Count de Paris and thus third in line of succession to the nonexistent throne of France; in a skirmish with Algerian rebels while serving as a second lieutenant with a French army infantry battalion; in Algeria's Kabylia Mountains...
Some of the neighborhood children broke up the Harvard Band's victory block Saturday after the Columbia game, and the resulting battle was one of the best in years. The wild skirmish lasted only three or four minutes, but produced a large variety of injuries and indignities...
...endless war between bureaucracy and the individual, a new skirmish was being fought last week in industrial Manchester. A 6-ft., nobly bearded Sikh named Gyani Sundar Singh Sagar. 43, having passed the examination to become a conductor on Manchester's municipal buses, was eager to don the navy-blue uniform of his chosen calling. But since the Sikh Holy Book, the Adi Granth. says that "a Sikh is never to wear a cap or shave his beard or head,'' Singh Sagar asked permission to keep his shoulder-length hair under a smoothly coiled turban rather than...
...denunciation-of-race-bigotry movie. Sidney Poitier, an accomplished actor so discriminated against because of his color that he will probably never be allowed to play a character who is not strong, sensitive and noble, is a Marine sergeant whose unit is chopped to pieces during a Korean war skirmish. The only officer dies, and Poitier takes over, despite a near mutiny by Paul Richards, a race-baiter who calls him "night-fighter." and Alan Ladd, a surly type who has little use for Negroes, and who is also jealous because he had outranked Poitier until a recent demotion...