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...runs one minute of commercial time for every four to five minutes of films. And on the popular, easily sold shows, the ratio changes painfully. A recent showing of The Pawnbroker on Manhattan's WOR-TV was interrupted by 19 60-second commercials and 14 30-second commercials. Afterward, there was another 14 minutes of station identifications and promotion announcements. It added up, Variety noted, to a minute of bucks for every three minutes of movie...
...spent months inside the more violent wings of the movement say that some leaders are vowing "to put the whites on reservations like they did the Indians. We don't want integration or segregation; we want the whole country. We are going to carry out total revolution, and afterward there will be only blacks, some Negroes, and no whites...
With the aid of unemployed civil rights marchers and militant priests, Chavez, Alinsky & Co. ultimately won their strike. The revolutionary fever was slow to cool. As one union organizer put it afterward: "Success in our business means getting workers to middle-class status. The guy who carried a banner in 1966-well, in five years you're going to have a hard time getting him to a union meeting." It is that mood of inevitability that makes the anachronism of the Delano strike such compelling reading-and the strikers' success such a meaningful victory...
Shortly before How I Won the War opened in Germany, Director Richard Lester attended preview screenings before student audiences in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. Afterward, he debated the film on the stage with politicians and writers. The results, he remembers, were sometimes quite startling. "One politician began shouting that 'the film is an insult to my English comrades in arms who fought bravely against us, at which point the students in the audience began chanting 'Sieg Heil!' in unison." Such outbursts were the sweet sounds of success for Lester. "Getting these points of view...
Thieu then led the government's retinue and his guests from abroad off to a reception in the Independence Palace. Afterward, he came back to the Assembly to address the nation's new Senate and House, offering them "mutual respect and sympathy" and inviting them to join him in broadening the base of South Vietnamese democracy. That night Thieu happily cut a six-foot-high red and yellow cake at a state banquet at the palace...