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About the only surviving landmark from Nixon's past is the tiny clapboard house where he was born in Yorba Linda, Calif., still the worn residence of a school maintenance man. For now, that house is about as distant as it can be. Watching Nixon with a new four-year charter in his hand and his voice ringing out over the Capitol Plaza, one had to wonder if the President would not always outrace the past...
Amoral Charm. The U.S. distributor, United Artists, has allowed only one carefully timed public screening in the States-on the final night of the New York Film Festival in October. "That date," wrote Critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, "should become a landmark in movie history comparable to May 29, 1913-the night Le Sacre du Printemps was first performed-in music history. [Tango has] altered the face of an art form. This is a movie people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies." United Artists recently reprinted the whole of Kael's extraordinary...
...Congress promised the nation's colleges and universities a vastly expanded program of aid through the new Higher Education Act. Nixon's only criticism at the time was that the bill should have gone even further in "equalizing opportunity for all." HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson called it "landmark" legislation. Democratic Representative John Brademas of Indiana hailed it as the most significant higher education law since the Land-Grant Act of 1862. The measure included two unprecedented steps: 1) direct aid of up to $1,400 a year-"basic educational opportunity grants," immediately nicknamed BOGs -to any needy...
George P. Kramer '50, secretary of the Club, said the decision was "inevitable." "No one felt it was a landmark happening. It had been building up for a long time," he said...
SCHOENBERG, BERG, WEBERN: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS (DG, 5 LPs). A landmark of recorded chamber music by the La Salle Quartet...