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...Crimson golfers broke a four year Penn State winning streak Saturday when they fought back from a 15-stroke deficit midway through the 36-hole tournament at Princeton to snatch the team trophy from the favorites...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Golfers Cop Easterns; 1st Time in 40 Years | 5/14/1968 | See Source »

Thus it is surprising that phone workers actually chose to strike over their demands for higher pay-which is up for regular renegotiation under "wage reopener" clauses midway through their three-year contracts. Most of the militance comes from the C.W.A.'s 23,000 central-office installers. The highest-paid men in the industry (earning some $3.27 per hour v. $2.76 for the average phone worker), they have hooted down industry offers of a 71% pay increase over the next 18 months, are demanding a whopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones: Union Hang-Up | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...likes of the menacing Colthurnus (David Palmer) the phantom prompter of the play-within-the-play and the stock, intuitively and irrepressibly daft Pierrot and Columbine figures, played by Jeffrey Blum and Lorraine James, of the play-without-the-play, the production seemed to slow down irreparably midway through. But Dean Ahmed, directing, manages to frame an unexpected climax to end the play on a note of crotchety sarcasm. The vivid costumes and masks were designed by Ellie Meglio...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Iman, | Title: One-Acters | 4/27/1968 | See Source »

...transition from pre-history to future becomes a simple cut from the bone descending in the air to a rocket preparing to land at a space station midway between earth and moon. A classic example of Bazin's "associative montage," the cut proves an effective, if simplistic, method of by-passing history and setting-up the link between bone and rocket as the spectral tools of man, one primitive and one incredibly sophisticated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...Midway in Rock Singer Jimi Hendrix's concert at Cleveland's Public Music Hall last week, the master of ceremonies asked the audience to check under their seats: there had been a bomb threat. But as it turned out, the only explosion that night was onstage. Said Hendrix: "Nobody but Jimi burns a house down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Wild, Woolly & Wicked | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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