Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flying Actors. Hitchcock's fantasy-loosely based on a chilling novella by Daphne du Maurier-promises to be up to his exacting standards of blood and gore, and to accomplish its frightening turns he has plunged his own "teevee money" into the elaborately detailed production. He had 700 birds trapped and trained, and spent meticulous hours coaxing them to become flying actors...
...they're not dumb. When the attack was launched, they had all decamped." Among the most important lessons learned and urgently taught to the Vietnamese: abandon the "blockhouse mentality," in which static troops defend only themselves; give up moving in large units and in big "sweeps." which accomplish nothing in the Vietnamese terrain; develop "quicker reaction time," i.e., hit back faster. The U.S. effort is aimed at helping the Vietnamese to do this themselves...
This fact and the two-year term of the governor serve to limit the amount he can accomplish, Volpe claimed. "You no sooner get elected and make plans than someone tells you you have to watch out because an election is coming...
...East and Midwest, is big on peace marches and demonstrations against civil defense. Norman Uphoff, head of S.P.U.'s University of Minnesota's chapter, criticizes SANE for its official stand against "civil disobedience" in peace demonstrations, adds: "SANE will not challenge the Government, and therefore can accomplish very little." Some colleges have local peace groups: Harvard's Tocsin, which claims 1,000 supporters, sent 500 students to a peace march in Washington in February; M.I.T.'s Rational Approach to Disarmament and Peace nearly elected a student-body president and is seeking a "peace research center...
Speaking at an Adams House gathering, the U.S. official claimed that many adults are in positions where they can accomplish a great deal for desegregation merely by hiring Negroes. Job discrimination in the North, he said, keeps Negroes from managerial and highly skilled positions in manufacturing...