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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbus missed the riches of the East, but he'll never know how close to Wall Street he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...universities in a ratio of four to one. More than four-fifths of the directors of the largest foundations are Wasps; of the 37 officers and directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, only one is non-Wasp. Under pressure of law and of the meritocratic "cult of performance," Wall Street law firms and brokerage houses are making room for more Jews and Catholics, but they are still overwhelmingly Wasp-controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ARE THE WASPS COMING BACK? HAVE THEY EVER BEEN AWAY? | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

With three inexperienced men lining the forward wall--George Yates, an injured Paul Waickowski (at less than full efficiency with a hamstring pull) and Mike Janczewski--Harvard still managed to stay in the game...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cagers Suffer Ivy Loss To Penn and Princeton | 1/13/1969 | See Source »

Scandinavian tourists troop off the ferry with light portable ladders to prop against the high stone wall. Sheep Island is a long way from Stockholm, the wind is bitter, and the wall is high. But to them the object is worth the search-a glimpse of Bergman and what Swedes euphemize as his latest "little home companion." If they are lucky, they can see a brilliant glint of strawberry blonde hair and the planed face with its saddle of freckles and wistful smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heroic Despair | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...unoriginal and tasteless. Dr. Krankeit (Jewish and author of the prize-winning Masturbation Now in the book) becomes a quack surgeon of Italian descent in the movie. The marvelous, obscene Aunt Livia character is transformed into a grotesque nymphomaniac, about as funny as a scrawl on a public bathroom wall. Candy herself becomes an aimless slut--hardly what the original work intended...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Candy | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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