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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1968
Page
2
Hollywood status is praised as San Francisco Fashion Film Festival launches the Samuel Goldwyn prize for the best U.S. produced film. The award, backed by Goldwyn, signals renewed Hollywood prestige amid runaway productions to Europe and elsewhere.
The population of American Indians in California declined from an estimated 133000 at first European contact to about 17000 by 1890, reflecting dramatic losses over the century.
Moscow theater cancels Yevtushenko work Bratsk Hydroelectric Station amid protest over the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Oct 10 performance nixed and Friday show canceled. theater cites removal from repertoire. Yevtushenko reportedly protested to the Communist Party center committee after the August invasion.
Mae West 75 will produce a film version next year of her play Sextet. Warner Brothers Severn Arts co produces with James T Aubrey Jr and Hunt Stromberg Jr. West has recent recordings and TV appearances and is preparing a TV special A Night with Mae West.
Prof James N Murray Jr of the University of Iowa political science department becomes director of the Center of International Studies. He will be paid 20780 and succeeds Vernon Van Dyke, who will teach and research while writing Human Rights and U S Foreign Policies. Murray joined Iowa faculty in 1954 and led the department 1965 to 1968 after a Fulbright stint in Istanbul.
WEBSTER GROVE MO A loose goose got a gander at freedom Wednesday in this St. Louis suburb. The 12 pound pet nipped six passersby before police captured the bird with a noose and returned it to its backyard pen.
London police arrested John Lennon and his companion Yoko Ono on marijuana possession charges and obstruction of a search. They were freed on bail pending a magistrate court appearance at Marylebone.
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