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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Thomas Sweet, 38, movie stuntman and hard-riding "white knight" of the TV commercial for Ajax detergent; of injuries when his private plane crashed against a mountain ridge; near Little Lake, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 1, 1967 | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...prime function of Rooks' home movie is for Rooks himself, as bitter nostalgia for a less-than-sweet 13 years, and a document-reminder of a life-style by necessity gone forever. Chappaqua, however, transcends personal therapy, Rooks keeping the audience in mind and treating his own life with little self-indulgence. As a personal statement, Chappaqua appears uncompromisingly honest, by virtue of the rigorous structuring of the film, the asceticism of the visual effects (compared, say, to Corman's The Trip), and Rooks' own sympathetic and attractive personality...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: 'Chappaqua' | 11/29/1967 | See Source »

...already diseased and dying. Using $500,000 from the James Foundation, which was established in 1938 by the will of Lucy Wortham James, great-granddaughter of pioneering Missouri Ironmaker Thomas James, the town decided to tear out the old trees and begin replacing them with hardier fast-growing holly, sweet gum and flowering crab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Trees for St. James | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Randall Jarrell wrote this bitter-sweet little obituary for himself more than ten years before he was struck by a car one night as he walked along a country road near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His wife and the nun have returned to whisper his praises in a volume of appreciations published this fall. Mrs. Jarrell recalls her husband's enthusiasms for sports cars, Mahler, and a giant cat named Kitten; Sister M. Bernetta Quinn plods patiently through an exposition of "Metamorphoses in Randall Jarrell...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Poet and Critic in Retrospect | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...results, he remembers, were sometimes quite startling. "One politician began shouting that 'the film is an insult to my English comrades in arms who fought bravely against us, at which point the students in the audience began chanting 'Sieg Heil!' in unison." Such outbursts were the sweet sounds of success for Lester. "Getting these points of view out in the open," he says, "is exactly why we made the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Vaudeville of the Absurd | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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