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...National Film Theater when London's cinema fans turned out en masse to hear nouvelle vague Director Jean-Luc Godard deliver a lecture on movie making. But the appointed hour came and went with no sign of the speaker. Finally, the disappointed audience was read a telegram from the elusive Godard: "If I am not there, take anyone in the street, the poorest if possible, give him my ? 100 lecture fee, and talk with him of images and sound, and you will learn from him much more than from me because it is the poor people who are really...
...began a passionate telegram of protest that, reported the London Sunday Times in a copyrighted story last week, had been sent by Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin on Aug. 22, the day after Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia. If Evtushenko was indeed the author, it was a bold and surprising act. Once the daring young man of Russia's liberals, in recent years the poet has become a kind of safe Establishment rebel. He wielded a careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works...
...Moscow, Evtushenko angrily denied having "sent them the letter." Presumably Evtushenko was referring to the editors of the Sunday Times, not the rulers of Russia. It was a crucial distinction. Under Russian law, he is free to write such criticism privately to officials. But sending such a letter or telegram outside the Soviet Union could constitute distributing "anti-Soviet propaganda," and make him liable to imprisonment for seven years...
...telegram to Acting Governor Francis W. Sargent, chairman of the School Committee Thomas S. Eisenstadt asked that the Guard be available "in the event the current volatile situation in Boston goes beyond the capabilities of the Boston law enforcement officials...
...other in the back. Rather's colleague, Mike Wallace, was belted in the jaw by a guard and hustled out of the hall. The attacks on newspaper and TV reporters became so flagrant that eight top executives of news-gathering organizations* strongly protested the treatment in a telegram to Mayor Daley...