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...best, big jazz bands evoke a sorrowful mood. They can't help it. They are spectacles of the past, like circuses or dirigibles, and no matter how good they are, their fans usually go home reminiscing about how great they used to be. The big bands began to slip with the death of swing in the early '40s; they grew even more obscure during rock 'n' roll's heyday...
Sophomore Bruce Fowler, 100-yard EISL breaststroke champion, will provide the Crimson with power in this traditionally strong event. Junior diver Dan Mahoney, a third-place finisher in the EISL championships, could be the best swordman in the East in 1964-65. Only a slip in the next to last dive in the EISL tournament prevented Mahoney from taking the championship this year...
...choice committee assignment, Mansfield immediately got a coveted spot on the Foreign Relations Committee. To this day, he would rather be considered an authority on foreign policy than a famed floor leader. He made three trips to Indo-China during the years when the French were letting it slip down the drain, concluded that the best solution there was partition, with South Viet Nam under a native, anti-Communist regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. Re-examining the situation last month, Mansfield urged that neutralization of both North and South Viet Nam ought to be contemplated. President Johnson had considerable...
...levied heavy fines against anyone who uttered or printed "false, scandalous and malicious" statements against the U.S. Government or its officers. It also anticipated any ambition of Commissioner Sullivan's to revive his suit back home in Alabama. The Times may have been guilty of negligence in letting slip a few misstatements, said Justice William J. Brennan for the court, but it was not guilty of malice: "We consider that the proof presented to show actual malice lacks the convincing clarity which the constitutional standard demands." Moreover, "there was no reference to respondent in the advertisement either by name...
Shock Treatment is more than a slip, it's a Freudian pratfall. It makes a shambles of psychiatry and brings the art of film close to idiocy. Stuart Whitman is hired to bluff his way into a mental hospital where Psychotic Killer Roddy McDowall may or may not reveal the location of $1,000,000 in stolen cash. But malevolent Psychiatrist Lauren Bacall also craves money, to continue her research. When she hits on Whitman's game, she prescribes electroshock therapy, then injects a concoction into his jugular vein to induce catatonia...