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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before a competent reading of Peter Mennin's Canzona and the concluding Ten Thousand Men of Harvard the band tackled a parvum opus of Anton Bruckner: the March in Eb, "originally for street band," as Walker announced with pain. The thing never should have been arranged for modern band, and HUB was roundly hissed for it--and hissed back, according to tradition...

Author: By Leonard J. Lehrman, | Title: Harvard Band | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

...cheered and shouted "Amen!" and "Tell it like it is, George!", Alabama's former Governor sneered, winked and thundered through a 50-minute attack on everything from the Supreme Court to his favorite target, "pseudo-intellectuals." When it was over, he had in hand a thousand more signatures than the 10,551 needed to place his American Independent Party on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Support from the Guts | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...getting any richer." She seems put out that her husband had no more enterprise than to pick his secretary as bedmate. Along with the jesting banter and bitchiness of the much married comes a feeling of poignancy for two people who find that love, like the sand in a thousand breakfast egg timers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Plaza Suite | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

Venus Examined, by Robert Kyle (345 pages; Bernard Geis; $5.95), and The Experiment, by Patrick Skene Catling (317 pages; Trident Press; $5.95), give the reader the astonishingly vivid impression that he is listening to sex manuals being read aloud to the thousand strings of Mantovani. Both start with almost identical premises, suggested no doubt by the success of the Kinseyesque novel The Chapman Report and the Masters-Johnson scientific study Human Sexual Response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Make-Believe | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you." Bunkie Knudsen has been mostly running ever since the day in 1927 when his father announced that he could have a new Chevrolet if he would stop by the plant. Bunkie, 14, found the car waiting-in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months to put it together," he recalls, "but I finally got it running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Biggest Switch | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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