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...Institute of Contemporary Art continues its retrospective series on Robert Altman this week, showing two of his lesser-known films--California Split and Thieves Like Us.Small businessman WARREN BEATTY and his partner, JULIE CHRISTIE, plan great things for the town of Presbyterian Church, in this scene from "McCabe and Mrs. Miller...
This attitude presents incredible arrogance in associating Harvard with goodness, and other universities with less beneficence or value. For the fact is that if Huntington were denied the right to teach here, he would undoubtedly turn to "lesser" schools for employment, probably in the South or West, where other hawks such as Rostow and Rusk teach. So, what difference does it make if we deny him tenure? The difference is significant only if we assume that Harvard has more value or prestige than "lesser" schools, and that thus his punishment would be a "step down...
...just can't have complete freedom of movement for all and total safety," contends James Gannett, a senior engineer test pilot for Boeing. "You've got to put the big guys in one place and the little guys in another." Most airline pilots, unwilling to bully their lesser brothers, are not necessarily in favor of an outright ban, but they do want the private pilots to pay a higher admission price, in the form of better equipment and training, for the use of congested major fields. "It's not that we want to exclude them from airspace...
...People in the South love their pollitics better than their food on the table," says Alabama Senator Maryon Allen. With contests last week for the governorship, both U.S. Senate seats and many lesser offices, Alabama's Democratic primary runoff-tantamount to election in a state where Republicans are still considered carpetbaggers-was a veritable feast. And the voters tried a little of everything. Experience counted, but then it didn't. A new face was helpful, but then it wasn't. The voters were inscrutable...
...news items occupy otherwise useless brain cells. For some inexplicable reason, save perhaps the innate grayness of the era, films from the '50s seem particularly susceptible to forgetability. In fact, there are only a few exceptions to this bizarre rule, among them Edward Murrow's better interviews and the lesser-known, but still timely film Come Back, Africa. Directed by Lionel Rogosin in 1959, Come Back, Africa is a documentary-drama about apartheid. Filmed secretly in South Africa, much of it in areas banned to whites, and then smuggled out of the country, it is a stunning indictment...