Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned his trade in the Ivy League. Yet, after losing 22 of their first 44 games this year, they have won 38 out of 47. Two weeks ago, they swept four in a row from the San Francisco Warriors to capture the National Basketball Association's Western Division playoffs. And this week they will be trying to turn a minor miracle into a major one when they take on the Eastern Division's Bos ton Celtics in a best-of -seven series for the N.B.A. championship...
...Western team has won the N.B.A. title since 1958, and the Lakers are almost certain to be underdogs against a Boston team that pulled a miracle of its own last week by spotting the Philadelphia 76ers a three-games-to-one lead, bouncing back to win the Eastern Division Playoffs. Pro basketball is a game of momentum, and the Celtics-tired and aging as they may be-have plenty of that. But then so do the Lakers, plus two of pro basketball's deadliest shooters in Elgin Baylor and Jerry West...
Rusk's proposal dripped with insincerity. He suggested such "neutrals" as Belgium and Japan, ignoring the newly-created United States criterion that an acceptable site must have adequate communications facilities for both sides. Conspicuously, Rusk's ten did not include Paris, the only Western capital with which the North Vietnamese are in touch and which they might accept...
OURS IS A WORLD dominated by photography and by cameras. Photography has fascinated the Western public since its invention in 1839, and that fascination is growing. The camera is more accessible--financially and technologically--to more people than ever before. In the last two decades, photography has become fully accepted as a legitimate art form, and photo galleries and books continue to emerge at an unprecedented rate...
...that Kubrick has taken off on his space kick, his fans are convinced that a sci-fi renaissance is on its way. As the spy film sinks slowly in the West, and the western sinks rapidly into TV, studios are occupied with some dozen ambitious fantasy features, ranging from Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with Rod Steiger, to the high-camp French comic strip Barbarella, with Jane Fonda. The next trend for Kubrick? All he will give away is that it will be "a mind boggler...