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...back in 1961, British Actress Susan Hampshire had a bash at Hollywood. Or, as she called it, "the Land of the Bottom Pinchers," where all the men have "crocodile wives and ulcers and gold-and-diamond rings they twist around their hairy fingers. The big shots also had arms they kept putting around me that managed to be long enough to reach my left breast." Susan recalls telling them: "I don't have to do that. I can act." So she returned home to become an international star...
...exportation to the rest of the Western world, is a constantly changing conglomeration of fads, life-styles and heroes: about forty years ago it was crossword puzzles and dance marathons; in the fifties it was quiz-shows and hoola hopps; in the last decade it was the twist and Jackie Kennedy. The culture moves so fast that one never can be quite sure of what is happening until the latest issue of Life (mainstream-pop culture) or Rolling Stone (counter pop-culture) arrives in the mail box. As Norman Mailer said a few weeks ago, only one factor...
ECONOMIC news out of Washington took an encouraging twist last week as the Government reported upticks in three key indicators. From February to March, housing starts rose 6%, personal income climbed, and industrial production increased (by 0.2%) for the first time in eight months. On the other hand, the annual rate of price increases in the year's first quarter speeded up to 5%, slightly more than in the previous quarter, meaning that inflation was as bad as ever. At the same time, a preliminary estimate showed that the first quarter's real gross national product, after discounting...
...play-offs began, Boston and Chicago both jumped off to 2-0 series leads, thanks to decisive home-ice victories. Regardless of the outcome, that agonizing last weekend had produced one final twist: with Montreal and Toronto finishing out of the money, the Stanley Cup was a strictly U.S. affair for the first time in the history of the league...
...uses of diversity in black leadership, and is the first to put down anyone who attempts to fit him for the mantle of Martin Luther King or even label him first among his peers in local organizing. He has chosen to work within the system and manages to twist it against itself into grudgingly granting black demands, but he does not disparage other voices, other tactics. "No man can tell a man who is hurting how to holler," he argues. "The business of trying to decry people because of the way they complain of injustice is past and gone...