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...focus on action against two wars--one in Vietnam, one in Angola where Gulf has substantial investments. And when dawn broke Thursday, two dozen black students from Afro and the Pan African Liberation Committee took the initiative, seizing Massachusetts Hall. There they remain, in what is by far the longest building occupation in Harvard's activist era. University Hall, brutally cleared by waves of police after students had held the building for hardly 15 hours in 1969, provides little comparison for the Mass Hall protesters who enter their third full day of occupation this morning...
...Novelist had elsewhere written an essay on his techniques of making films, explained in terms of his latest and longest work, Maidstone. With the intention of recording events truly appropriate to the nature of the medium rather than to the conventions of pre-film literature (the essay tells us,) Mr. Mailer invited a large group of friends, actors, actor-friends, and non-actor non-friends for a week-long party in Easthampton. There, with the use of four estates and the help of three cambers crews, the sol-disant Prisoner of Movies made a film in which "the country...
Hugging. The jury pondered for a total of 59½ hours, one of the longest periods ever in a federal criminal case. Along the way, the defense made several of its motions for a mistrial (all denied) by posing the question of how long a jury can deliberate before free discussion becomes court "coercion" to arrive at a verdict. At one point, the defense called for a mistrial based in part on the fact that Judge Herman had "summarily denied" a request by married jurors for conjugal visits. That in turn led trial-goers to pass the time by envisioning...
...care is free. Swedish hospitals have first-rate staffs and the most modern equipment; they lead the world in number of beds-17 for every 1,000 people. Sweden also has long had the world's lowest rate of infant mortality. Its men have the world's longest life expectancy, 71.7 years, and its women the second longest, 76 years, just behind Iceland. High-class, tuition-free education right through university is available to all academically qualified Swedes. University students get about $2,000 a year in living costs, partly in the form of state grants and mostly...
...equanimity, a peace in the middle of disaster. His life was more in step with the natural appetites than at war with them. He was healthy, incurably healthy; and his fascination with sex--that some feel is the key to his health--opened Miller to charges of being the longest case of arrested development in the twentieth century...