Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAFIOSO. Back to Sicily, where Director Alberto Lattuada fills the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial life while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...
...deposits and credits, today account for only 18% of deposits and 15% of credits. The bank's assets have grown to nearly $1 billion, making it Germany's fourth largest bank. Some of this rapid growth has occurred just because of B.F.G.'s proletarian background. Union officials sitting on corporate boards have provided the combination for getting many industrial accounts into the vaults, and much of the bank's foreign business has been initiated through union contacts all over the free world...
...week's Faulkner story was considerably different from that for most cover stories. Although Senior Editor A. T. Baker, Writer Horace Judson and Researcher Martha McDowell had at hand some 70 pages of current reporting from TIME correspondents covering the civil rights front and a wealth of other background from TIME'S library, the bulk of their material came from Faulkner's writings. In ten days of preparing for the story, Judson read or reread from cover to cover some 13 volumes of Faulkner's works...
...three separate and expertly cross-referenced filing systems, including boxes of index cards, fat black notebooks and large manila envelopes, all packed with vital information on each of 1,308 delegates, 1,308 alternates, and dozens of key politicians. Inherited from Nelson Rockefeller, the files contained names, ages, financial background, marital status, business contacts, clubs, fraternities, presidential preference, and the names of friends or associates who might put pro-Scranton pressure on the delegates. So precious were these files that Scranton's men had divided them into six sec tions for the trip from Harrisburg to San Francisco, packed...
...study of Russia (The Soviets in World Affairs; Russia, America, and the World), and he soberly weighs those episodes that the other two biographers sometimes accept as fact, offering the pros and cons of each argument. There is, for example, a genuine riddle about Lenin's racial background. Author Payne insists "there was not a drop of Russian blood" in Lenin, and claims his ancestry was German, Swedish and Chuvash (a Tatar tribe living along the Volga), and that it shaped his personality. Without citing any evidence, Author Possony argues that the "evidence indicates" Lenin's grandfather...