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Romance. The romance festival at the Orson Welles hits its peak in the next week. Ophuls's The Earrings of Madame De... is a beautiful, refined story with counts and barons and ballroom scenes, staircases and grand entrances, but a lot to say about this ethereal world. It plays tonight with Letter From an Unknown Woman with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jordan. and starting Sunday, Asquith's version of Pygmallon, with Leslie Howard playing Higgins young and tough-as-nails, which sometimes works well. Wendy hiller's Eliza Doolittle is absolutely amazing. Playing with arguably Katherine Hepburn's best work...
...support group picketed outside the building starting at 8 a.m. yesterday, when the building was taken over, Nearly 200 students participated in the support demonstration at its peak...
...Rostow was special assistant for national security affairs to President Johnson during the peak years of U.S. involvement in Viet...
University police will begin using the Business School's computer next week to determine high crime areas in the Harvard community so that officers can patrol these areas at peak crime hours, Sgt. Lawrence J. Murphy, the officer in charge of the operation, said yesterday...
Paradoxically, the generalissimo cast a longer shadow on the century than on China itself. At the peak of his international prestige, he was a smiling, greatcoated member of the wartime Big Four, along with Roosevelt (his great champion in the West), Stalin and Churchill. He was a founder of the United Nations, gaining for China a permanent seat on the Security Council. It was in America that his image was most exalted. "To American eyes," said Churchill, "he was one of the dominant forces in the world. He was the champion of 'the new Asia.' " But when...