Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). "The Road to Gettysburg." Kevin McCarthy and David Carradine narrate this Civil War account of two soldiers, a Yank and a Rebel-from their induction to the Battle of Gettysburg...
...FESTIVAL. "Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal." Ninety-minute account of the distinguished anthropologist's work among tribesmen of the South Seas...
...factor that still remains out of balance-and has significantly contributed to the fiscal problems of Britain and France-is the foreign-trade account. As in 1967, the Germans will record a trade surplus of more than $4 billion this year. Increased domestic consumption hardly makes up for that, and Schiller's solution has been the encouragement of investment abroad-some $2.5 billion...
...later gave an amended account of the events. When it became apparent that the game would run late, NBC TV President Don Durgin and Sports Vice President Carl Lindemann, both watching the telecast at home in the New York City suburbs, conferred by telephone. Lindemann then called the home of the game's operations manager -whose name NBC insists is a "deep dark secret"-and informed him of the decision to stay with the game until its conclusion...
Flights of Rhetoric. A private account about any or all of these gifted Malrauxs would have been fascinating. But, as curious readers of Anti-Memoirs soon find, the author, now 67, has loftily decided to leave nearly all of his personal chronology out of his autobiography. ("Almost all the writers I know love their childhood," he writes, thus disposing of all that. "I hate mine.") What he offers instead is an odd, episodic mixture of action and reflection, frequently obfuscated by Malraux's fondness for flights of impenetrable Gallic rhetoric. The book includes part of an early novel, some...