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* In 1968, George Lucas won first prize in the category of Dramatic films at the third National Student Film Festival held at Lincoln Center, New York for his futuristic Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB.
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* 1968 – George Forrest, Northern Irish politician ( b. 1921 )
* Haight, Gordon S., George Eliot: A Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1968, ISBN 0-19-811666-7.
An influential American horror film of this period was George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).
Thought lost for decades, a print was found by filmmaker Curtis Harrington in the Universal vaults in 1968 and restored by George Eastman House.
In July 1968, a faction of George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) hijacked an Israeli El Al civilian plane en route to Algiers ; in December, Habash himself oversaw an attack on an El Al plane in Athens, resulting in two deaths.
The first film to address lesbianism with significant depth was The Killing of Sister George in 1968, which was filmed in The Gateways Club, a longstanding lesbian pub in London.
* 1968 – Tate George, American basketball player
In 1968, Manchester United became the first English ( and second British ) club to win the European Cup, beating Benfica 4 – 1 in the final with a team that contained three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.
* 1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
* 1921 – George Forrest, Northern Irish MP ( d. 1968 )
The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet.
George A. Kelly ( New York: Harper Torch Books, 1968 ).
Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.
Patrick Taggart of the Austin American-Statesman hailed it as the most important horror film since George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).
" Rewriting the Dead: The Tension between Nostalgia and Perversion in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 )".
* A non-fiction study of the movement is provided by George Bruce's The Stranglers: The cult of Thuggee and its overthrow in British India ( 1968 ).
The party absorbed the American Independent Party, originally founded for George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign.
In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.
* George Lewis ( clarinetist ) ( 1900 – 1968 ), born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon
** George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist ( d. 1968 )
* July 13 – George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist ( d. 1968 )
** U. S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
* August 30 – George Pelawa, American ice hockey star Minnesota Mr. Hockey ( b. 1968 )
In late 1968, General Abrams met with Colonel George S. Patton IV-the son of World War II General Patton-who was the regimental commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( 11th ACR Blackhorse ), the only full regiment of cavalry in Vietnam.
During a trip to London in December 1967, Tork contributed banjo to George Harrison's soundtrack to the 1968 film Wonderwall.
1968 and Lucas
This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.
D. W. Lucas ( Aristotle: Poetics, Oxford, 1968 ) in an authoritative edition of the Poetics does a comprehensive job of covering the various nuances inherent in the meaning of the term in an Appendix devoted to " Pity, Fear, and Katharsis.
* Scott W. Lucas ( 1892 – 1968 ), U. S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader from Illinois
* René Lucas ( 1947 – 1968 ), member of the French Academy of Sciences
Scott Wike Lucas ( February 19, 1892 – February 22, 1968 ) was an American attorney and politician.
* Season 2 – 1968 Dodge Dart GTS 340 convertible " kustomized " by George Barris with functional hood scoops, Lucas Flamethrower driving lights, blacked-out grille, racing-style gas filler cap, molded-in rear spoiler, blacked out taillight panel and custom taillight lenses.
The dissident Czech academic Otakar Vočadlo ( 1895-1974 ) celebrated his restoration, during the Prague Spring of 1968, to his Chair of English at Prague, by giving a course of lectures on Webster in memory of Lucas, who had died the year before and whose support of the Czech cause in 1938-39 had not been forgotten.
* Lucas, J. R. ( 1968 ) Satan stultified: a rejoinder to Paul Benacerraf, The Monist, vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 145 – 158.
In January 1968, the film won first prize in the category of Dramatic films at the third National Student Film Festival held at the Lincoln Center, New York, where it was seen and admired by Steven Spielberg, who had not previously met Lucas.
Russell Penticost ( 1968 – 69 ); Micky Ansell ( 1976 – 77 ); Micky Peacock ( 1978 – 79 ); Clive Limbrick ( 1982 – 83 ); Colin Johnson, Neil Liley, Stewart McCreadie ( all 1985-86 ); Scott Milford ( 1988 – 89 ); Danny Lucas ( 1990 – 91 ); John Mitchell, Selwyn Brooks ( 1991 – 92 ); Tim Brown ( 1999 – 2000 ).
Nick Lucas bought the track in 1968, paving it in 1974.
* 1968 – Homicide – Marika Lucas – 7 Network / Crawford Productions
1968 and won
Karpov won a gold medal for academic excellence in high school, and entered Moscow State University in 1968 to study mathematics.
Ajax won the championship in 1966 and 1967, scoring a record breaking 122 goals including 33 from Johan Cruijff, and again in 1968, and reached the European Cup final of 1969 against AC Milan.
Their second Coppa Italia trophy was won in 1968 – 69 when it was competed in a small league like system.
In 1968, he captained the Manchester United team that won the European Cup, scoring two goals in the final to help his team be the first English side to win the competition.
The Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984 ) and have won the American League pennant 10 times ( 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, and 2006 ).
In 1968, it won an international award, the Prix Jeunesse, in Munich.
England have never won the UEFA European Football Championship – their best performance being a semi final appearance at the 1968 and 1996 Championships.
Pakistan won in 1960, 1968 and 1984.
Chassis # P-1075, which won in 1968 and 1969, is the first car in Le Mans history to win the race more than once with the same chassis, and one of three cars to have won with the same chassis.
It won the 24 hours of Le Mans race in 1968 against the fragile smaller prototypes.
It also won Best Play from the New York Drama Critics Circle in 1968, and Outstanding Production from the Outer Critics Circle in 1969.
While in Baltimore the team advanced to the postseason ten times and won three NFL Championship games in 1958, 1959 and 1968.
Steps ( 1968 ), a novel comprising scores of loosely connected vignettes, won the U. S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins won the award for a record eight consecutive seasons ( 1968 – 75 ).
He also won the 1968 National League Gold Glove Award for catchers, marking the first time the award had been won by a rookie.
In 1968 Dancer's Image became the first ( and to this day the only ) horse to win the race and then be disqualified after traces of phenylbutazone, an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug, were found in the horse's urinalysis ; Forward Pass won after a protracted legal battle by the owners of Dancer's Image ( which they lost ).
He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if ...., which won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival and was Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut.
He served as the Vikings ' offensive coordinator from 1968 – 85, when the team won 11 division titles and played in 4 Super Bowls.
Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971.
The New Progressive Party ( PNP ) was founded in August, 1967 by Luis A. Ferré, a month after the July 23, 1967 local plebiscite and the year before the PNP won the 1968 elections.
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