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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country-western has been smooth going, which is a tribute to their exceptional talents. Stephen Stills, who wrote five of the songs, sings Four Days Gone with down home grit. It is a story song about a boy on the run from "government madness" who can't tell his name because he's "got reason to live." A tinny piano tinkles in the background while a steel guitar twangs out his lament, "I can't even go home. . . and my baby is awaitin'." The graceful admixture of rural blues and country-western sounds makes an admirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 20, 1968 | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...last sentence, Terry Sullivan, 30, could have been writing home about graduate school. Instead, his words appeared in a recent issue of Win, a magazine devoted to the Nonviolent Movement against the Viet Nam war. Sullivan's observations were intended to reassure fledgling draft resisters, to tell them that the ordeal of prison is not as terrifying as it seems. A draft resister who spent ten months at Danbury Correctional Institution in Connecticut, Sullivan was released a year ago. He recommends prison as "a great experience-you'll love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: How The Resisters Fare | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...programs go in for a little extra insurance. Julia (NBC) is a Negro widow. Warns Star Diahann Carroll: "Julia is not going to tell it like it is. It's a comedy, and Watts ain't funny." Another Negro widow, played by Gail Fisher, will be a regular on the old private-eye series Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Here Come the Merry Widows | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...tell you is that you'll have to wait...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Hey Revolution | 9/18/1968 | See Source »

...Gatto, and, at least, the schedule hasn't changed any in the last month (only two road games), so Harvard continues to make plans to field a team this year. Sports Information Director Baaron Pittenger can still see things in perspective. He remembers worse days, when he used to tell writers that Harvard had more players injured than Yovicsin could ever get just to come out for the team at Gettysburg. Yovicsin himself remains stoically undisillusioned. Asked to evaluate the Crimson's chances now, he answered, "If everything works out, we "ll have a football team...

Author: By Boaz Shatton, | Title: Another Look at Football | 9/18/1968 | See Source »

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