Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Watkins' The War Game has become an artifact of its society as well as a film: the cause celebre about nuclear war created by this movie has crystallized certain contemporary problems. For example, a storm broke when the B.B.C. for which the movie had originally been made, refused to show it because it was too horrifying. This uproar dramatized the potentials and weaknesses of the nationalized television industry. On the one hand, the resources of the B.B.C. allowed Watkins to make The War Game. On the other hand, the conservatism of the B.B.C. (which has become to many young...
...rioting broke out in Negro slums this summer, no publications expressed more dismay than Negro newspapers. "Madness of the first degree," said the Houston Forward Times. "The work of depraved minds who are too sick to know better." The Chicago Daily Defender has launched a contest for the best advice on how to "Keep a Cool Summer." Even the paper's switchboard operators are instructed to answer: "Keep a cool summer, hello...
...lines. Despite the strike call, many drivers took out buses. Dozens of Communist mobs, composed of anywhere from 40 to 1,000 young toughs and armed with wickedly sharpened cargo hooks, stilettos and stones, terrorized the colony's teeming Chinese districts. They smashed windows, set scores of fires, broke traffic lights and tossed bottles of acid at the hard-pressed police. But the defiant busmen got the worst treatment: the mobs attacked drivers and passengers, burned ten buses in a single day and reduced the island's transportation system to one gigantic traffic snarl...
...Anguilla broke its ties with St. Kitts and Nevis two months ago, chased the federation's 15-man police force off the island and declared its independence. Last week the provisional government, headed by Adams, made it more official. In a "national" referendum among Anguilla's 2,500 eligible voters, 1,813 islanders voted for independence; only five opposed...
...final U.S. trials. That was the year that Mosbacher invented the "tail chasing" start. While the two boats were jockeying for position, Bus kept Vim's bow practically on top of Columbia's transom. Columbia could neither jibe nor tack without fouling Vim. Not until Mosbacher broke off for the starting line could Cunningham swing into action. By then, Vim was precious seconds in the lead...