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...Deans said they wanted to move among the demonstrators and "talk to each of you individually." But Ansara told them they had to deal with the group as a whole. At this point he gave Watson a wad of 140 bursar's cards collected from the protestors. The Deans then went back into the conference room with Leavitt...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: 300 Stage Sit-In at Mallinckrodt Hall To Halt Dow Chemical Recruitment | 10/26/1967 | See Source »

...instructor dangled a sheet of paper between his fingers, asked the student to imagine that he was that paper. The student, concentrating, felt thin, flexible, fragile. Crunch!A-the instructor crumpled the paper into a wad. The student winced. Then both smiled- the student had become "sensitized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning: School for the Senses | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...does, however, have Beatrice Lillie. If you've ever seen Miss Lillie, you won't need any recommendations. If you haven't, zip down to the nearest record shop and spend your wad on a Lillie album...

Author: By Jaqmes M. Lardnerem, AT THE CIRCLE THEATRE FOREVER | Title: Thoroughly Modern Millie | 4/10/1967 | See Source »

...would have been easier on Artist Peter Kurd [Jan. 13] if L.B.J. shared Robert Burns's sentiment: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. An' foolish notion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...mountain labored to bring it forth. Producer Walter Mirisch, having paid James Michener $600,000 for the screen rights to a 937-page bestseller that has SOLD 4,000,000 copies, backed his investment with a wad that less than a century ago would have bought the island the picture is named after. For $14,000,000 he got Panavision, Color by Deluxe, top-chop talent (Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris), two shrewd scripters (Dalton Trumbo and Daniel Taradash), and a director (George Roy Hill) whose dependability is warm milk to any producer's ulcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shouts & Muumuus | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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