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...ASSASSINATION BUREAU. Looking for something to take the family to on a rainy Saturday afternoon? This is it. The kids will love all the improbable derring-do, and parents may find themselves getting an occasional laugh out of all the frantic but genial proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...obvious: the very fact that an exam in English is conducted exactly like an exam in Geology is enough to make clear to many students the fact that exams have absolutely nothing to do with intellectual concerns. There can be no explanation of why students are required to scribble frantic little essays on vast and intricate subjects except in terms of economic needs which are wholly foreign to the intellectual content of their courses...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: A Proposal Concerning Exams | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

...Eugene McCarthy, the moody Minnesotan who had the courage to challenge his party's President, then seemingly lacked the spine or energy to wage more than a languid, token campaign against Hubert Humphrey for his party's nomination. What kind of a man, they wonder, can reject frantic calls from campaign aides at key moments, first because he is watching the All-Star baseball game on television, next because he is playing softball with a group of nuns? What about his pettiness toward opponents, his long refusal to endorse Humphrey after the Vice President won the nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Explaining McCarthy | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut's new film is another chapter in his cinematic autobiography, a souvenir of the frantic romances and comic careers of an adolescent (Jean-Pierre Léaud) reaching for manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut's new film is another chapter in his cinematic autobiography, a lovely souvenir of adolescence that focuses on the frantic romances and comic careers of an ebullient young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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