Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEDIUM COOL is the most impassioned and impressive film released so far this year.Writer-Director-Cinematographer Haskell Wexler's loose narrative about a TV cameraman during last summer's Chicago convention fuses documentary and narrative techniques into a vivid portrait of a nation in conflict...
...escaped from prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu, Maoist cultural cadres are vociferously denouncing "rock-'n'-roll crazy dances and vulgar and revolting actions in some so-called revolutionary dances...
...code has been tested in the highest civilian and military courts this year by dissenting servicemen at home who complain of biased courts-martial, harsh sentences, prolonged pretrial imprisonment without bail and military efforts to stifle free speech. In a decision last summer that restricts the military's authority to prosecute servicemen for off-base crimes, the U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether a court-martial is really a fair trial or just another means of enforcing discipline. "A civilian trial is held in an atmosphere conducive to the protection of individual rights," wrote Justice William O. Douglas...
President Pusey disclosed the committees-which were created during the summer to the Faculty on Tuesday Pusey said he had hoped to appoint the committees last spring. but their creation was delayed by the April upheaval. No timetable for Faculty consideration of the question has yet been...
...this girl in San Francisco this summer who was a free-lance news photographer. I had been a free-lance photog in Boston one summer and had even made money off of it. We compared notes on edging out the other photographers at the secne of the news and beating them out in getting your pictures down to AP first. We went to the big demonstration downtown when Nixon was there and ran into a lot of Secret Service men. and photographers who all came smiling up to her and joked and stood around for hours. She later explained...