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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss Family Robinson (Buena Vista), like most of Walt Disney's screen versions of the children's classics (17 to date), is good Disney and bad culture. Ostensibly, the film is based on the world-famed boy's book, published in 1812-13, by Johann Wyss, who was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to produce his own castaway chronicle and give his principal characters the good old Swiss name of Robinson...
...result then went to the literary panel, which was responsible for seeing that every nuance of meaning in the old translation was included in the new, that the language was sufficiently dignified for reading aloud, and that the modern expressions used would not be out of date in 50 years. Example: the King James "den of thieves" did not become "gangsters' hideout" only because it was thought that the '20s expression might not last long enough. The compromise: "robbers' cave...
Businessmen have long agreed that the best way to encourage spending on new plant and equipment is faster tax write-offs on capital goods depreciation. The question for the U.S. Treasury is how to bring the present hodgepodge of depreciation tax rules (not fully revised since 1942) up to date. Last week businessmen themselves suggested a simple, sensible way: more than half of some 3,500 U.S. companies surveyed by the Treasury Department favored a free hand in using their own business judgment in determining the useful life of machinery for tax purposes...
...While her husband got a sartorial slap from members of the International Association of Clothing Designers. Kennedy's suits, said the designers, are "at least six years out of date," have shoulders that are too broad, lapels that are too wide, and only two buttons where there should be three...
Dartmouth's record to date is none too impressive. With only four games played, the Indians have not gone far towards rebuilding the graduation-riddled team that once won 19 out of 30 connective contests. Last weekend's 5-3 defeat at Yale considerably dampened their hopes for a repeat championship. The must beat Harvard to stay above the 500 mark, let alone keep alive any chance for the Ivy title...