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Winter Light (1963). Stark Ingmar Bergman film starring Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin, and Max von Sydow...
...democratic victory. (We marvel how conveniently files disappear in headquarters). We could reward the California firebug for risking his person as fire-fighter in the most disastrous fire Berkeley has had in decades, despite his authorship of the same. We could also award a posthumous peace-prize to Herr Von Ribbentrop for cementing a bilateral non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin just prior to the German invasion of Russia...
...When the conservative Chicago Tribune began running Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman's left-leaning iconoclasms last June, it warned readers that "his provocative and controversial style will shock and anger some." Sure enough, shock and anger quickly appeared-in Tribune editorials. "We can't sit by," the Trib huffed in July, "while he refers to Israel as 'the Prussia of the Middle East.'" The next month, the paper hopped up again to skewer Von Hoffman's critical description of Republican partying at the Miami convention: "If some [of the delegates] appeared to be affluent, well...
...Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of Freshmen, said yesterday that his office does not compile career plan figures for freshmen...
Fittingly enough, the first CEA report to be prepared partly by a woman -Marina von Neumann Whitman, the council's only female member-is also the first to contain a chapter on the role of women in the economy. The chapter was included because CEA Chairman Herbert Stein was asked to write an article for the Ladies' Home Journal on the subject; looking into the matter, he discovered what Mrs. Whitman calls "a mass of ignorance." The CEA report cuts through that ignorance in rather gloomy fashion and indicates that women have made startlingly little progress toward...