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Some people, who otherwise believe strongly in the future of pay TV, are doubtful about Weaver's venture because they think that he may be starting too fast, promising an aggregate of twelve hours of programming a day on his three "channels." He also needs votes. The sworn foes of subscription TV are so active in California that they have succeeded in placing an initiative on the November ballot, through which voters may vote pay TV out of existence by effecting the repeal of the act that originally sanctioned the subscription project. The foes are chiefly admen, theater operators...
Kathie Amatniek '64, L. Geoffrey Cowan '64, and Claude Weaver '65 were staying in the home of Robert J. Miles, a Panola County civil rights leader, when the incident occured. A car drove up in front of the house, someone got out and threw a grenade on the roof. The car sped away as Cowan, Miles, Weaver, Miss Amatniek, and two other COFO workers ran out of the house to escape the fumes...
...Sawyer's Hamlet is uneven, it is nonetheless an impressive start. Properly sporting a beard (which many Hamlets neglect), he looks right for the part, although I have yet to see the fat Hamlet that Shakespeare himself specified. His performance is a great improvement over the one that Fritz Weaver wheezed his way through on this same stage...
...Sawyer, a good deal is real. In the "rogue and peasant slave" soliloquy he even becomes quite violently deranged. He does not give us the 18th-century melancholy aristocrat, or the 19th-century fragile neurasthenic. Nor does he recall Barrymore's Laborious Hamlet, or Olivier's Athletic Hamlet, or Weaver's Feverish Hamlet...
Surely the aristocratic signers of this document did not think that the weaver, tanner and tavern keeper were their equals. Let those who insist on twisting the facts consider the facts of history: all the Southern signers of this famous document were slaveholders-including our first President...