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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's hopes today rest--as usual--on the line. If an aggressive and experienced Brown line begins to open holes for the Bruin backs and gives quarterback Finney ample protection, the running and passing of the Crimson's Stahura and Simourian will be worthless. Sophomore tackle Bob Shaunessy played well against Princeton and will have to be in top form again this afternoon, as will Captain Ted Metropoulos and the rest of the line...
...months later, many of Rojas' political opponents were killed or maimed by government thugs for having booed his daughters at the bullfights. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights found vast "zones of military operation" where military courts were empowered to try civilians for treason with none of the usual Constitutional safeguards. 50,000 peasants had already been "exiled" from their homes, many of them for having protested against the extortion rackets of corrupt local officials...
...Giant's handling of the segregation issue, through the somewhat less flagrant problem of Texan prejudice against Mexican-Americans. The movie does depict the trend in Mexican-Texan relations correctly--only the old settlers do not understand the "messican;" the new generation accepts and even encourages him. But as usual, Hollywood has oversimplified, exaggerating the problem in order to come up with a strikingly optimistic conclusion. No Mexican-American would ever be ejected from any restaurant as in the movie. On the other hand, no son of a Benedict would ever marry a Mexican-American (unless she had money). Prejudice...
...however. Each girl pays compulsory dorm dues, and can get her money's worth by attending the hall's social functions. These include the famed twice-yearly Jolly-Ups, Sunday afternoon tea hours, and weekly open-house nights, when the dorm stays open until midnight in stead of the usual 10 p.m. After dinner sociability takes the form of demi-tasse in the living room, with the head resident pouring coffee into miniscule cups...
...Times, the broadcasters' usual explanations about high rescheduling costs was no excuse. "Every journalistic medium has high costs when an emergency occurs," said Gould. "It is part of the overhead that goes with the privilege of having access to the country's minds ... If TV is to be only a parlor carnival, let it say so and stop its pompous proclamations about being in the field of communications...