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This weekend the Center Screen at Carpenter Center opens its fall film series with Dusan Makavejev's 1968 film Innocence Unprotected. A visiting professor at Harvard this year, the Yugoslavian filmmaker has achieved international reknown with such films as Man is Not a Bird (1966). A Love Affair: Tragedy of a Switchboard Operator(1967), WR: Mysteries of the Organism(1971), and Sweet Movie(1974). Recognized for the vitality and independence of his hotch potch style--juxtaposing science and eroticism, matching up a switchboard operator with a rat exterminator--Makavejev is an exciting addition to Harvard's film department. He will...
...death toll in all of Rumania might reach into the thousands. The oil-producing center of Ploesti, 35 miles north of Bucharest, also suffered damage, and the seismic spasm affected Rumania's neighbors. In Bulgaria, 20 people were reported killed, and more than 100 were injured in Yugoslavian border towns. Chandeliers swayed as far away as Rome and Naples; in Moscow, buildings trembled and pictures shook off walls...
Zivkovic, a Yugoslavian native, is a hard worker who is perpetually enthusiastic about fencing. His impact on the sport has been recognized throughout the world, and his effect on Harvard fencers has already been beneficial...
...Yugoslavian citizen, Zivkovic fenced in five World Fencing Championships, competing in two weapons: epee and foil. In 1953 at the Brussels championships he made it to the quarter-finals. He studied in Belgrade for a year and became a "maestro," fencing's most honored accomplishment. After competing in the 1958 world championships in Philadelphia, the maestro decided to remain in the United States...
...ever since the 1930s. But it would be a whole new way of doing business for the defense contractors. Only McDonnell Douglas has had a similar experience. In 1969 Yugoslavia wanted to buy DC-9s, but did not have enough dollars. So McDonnell Douglas agreed to help by marketing Yugoslavian goods, including hams, in the U.S. For years thereafter, the standing joke in the company's executive dining room was: "Here come the rest of those Yugoslavian hams." Oil, presumably, would be easier to convert to cash...