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...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is a wildly funny joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...Boston Red Sox last year, picked up right where he left off by belting two in his very first game. Harmon Killebrew, who matched Yaz with 44 for the Minnesota Twins, also collected two homers last week, although he needed two games to get them. New York's Mel Stottlemyre pitched a shutout in the Yankees' home opener-just as he did in 1967, when the Yanks proceeded to lose 90 of their next 161 games. The New York Mets lost, as always. And the St. Louis Cardinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Plus | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Wayne Hansen, editor of Avatar, spent two hours on the stand yesterday explaining the philosophy of Avatar. "We're a 'family' of 50 or 60 young people who live together at Fort Hill in Roxbury. We're centered around the personality and ideas of Mel Lyman, who embodies the highest philosophical ideals," he said. Kennedy's concern for the educational situation in the District of Columbia. He created the Chase Commission, which recommended the establishment of a federally-sponsored college in the District. Congress, which controls the financial affairs of the District, allocated funds for a university and appointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tisdale to Hear Final Arguments In 'Avatar' Trial | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

...PRODUCERS. Two shyster impresarios (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) set out to make a killing on Broadway in this first film by Comedian-Writer Mel Brooks, which offers, albeit fitfully, some of the best cinema comedy in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 5, 1968 | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...snowstorms in history has been raging over the airport for three days. The longest and widest runway is blocked by a mired Boeing 707. A traffic controller is suicidally depressed. And a Rome-bound flight lifts off with a man carrying a bomb in his briefcase. How Airport Manager Mel Bakersfeld and a score of other characters cope provides the suspense of this obvious but well-programmed novel. Among the nuggets Hailey might better have left unreported is a chillingly explicit vignette on How to Build a Bomb with materials available in hardware stores for "less than five dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 20th Century Waiting Rooms | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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