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...Catholic, no one has yet discovered her special attraction to the two universities. When the University of Redlands began a fund drive in 1965, an alumnus at IBM casually sent a newspaper clipping about the campaign to retired IBM World Trade Corp. Vice President James G. Johnston. Although Johnston had never so much as seen Redlands, back from Cannes came his check...
Against the surreal landscapes of Mozambique, Bechuanaland and Transvaal, Director Wilde unfolds this simple tale with elemental force, and acts it accordingly. His natives are not the usual faceless blacks but human beings whose capacity for violence the hero quickly matches. In the script, sparely written by Clint Johnston and Don Peters, a few scraps of English dialogue and African dialect count for less than the surprise of a snapping twig or the insistent throb of drums, injected into the bloodstream of the film like so many shots of adrenaline. Without insulting modern Africa, Naked Prey writes the wild poetry...
Scoring on the five-point must system for the winner of each round, referee Jackie Silvers favored Clay, 73-65. Judge Tony Canzane had it 74-63, and judge Jack Johnston...
Died. Joseph Ignatius Breen, 75, longtime (1934-54) arbiter of Hollywood's movie morals, who was hired by the Hays (later Johnston) Office to boss the industry's keep-it-clean Production Code, started out by telling producers, "I'm going to throw a helluva lot of your celluloid in the ashcan," which he did while offering such "suggestions" as "Eliminate the action of Spit actually expectorating," only once faced open revolt-when Howard Hughes in 1954 released The French Line without a Seal of Approval, thus earning a $25,000 fine; of a stroke; in West...
Shortly before midnight, Johnston telephoned Wilson to report that Smith had just taken the last step before independence: he had forced British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs to sign over his powers to the Cabinet in case he could "no longer function." Wilson decided that the only hope left was to phone Smith directly. He booked the call for 5 a.m., argued with the Rhodesian Prime Minister for 16 minutes, at one point politely told him he was being influenced by "thugs." It was all to no avail. "I was speaking to a confused and unhappy man," Wilson told the House...