Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa largely in search of low wages. It is utopian to think they will willingly oppose a system which, like apartheid, has given them profit at a rate of 16-20 per cent--almost twice the average rate of profit in the U.S. Realizing this, black organizations have long called for a total boycott of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The wages foreign investors pay South African blacks are so low, and the aid they give the apartheid regimes so great, that southern Africans fighting for freedom prefer to forego the small benefits of the firms' presence. Steve Biko...
...gifted comedians. Keaton yearns to evoke horror, jerk tears, turn the faces of onlookers pale with fear. "I didn't know if Diane had the range," Goodbar Director Richard Brooks remembers. "And I was thinking, sitting there in my office with her, that she is not exactly what you call a great beauty. Then it struck me that this is who this story is about: a nice-looking girl, a sexy girl, but not the best-looking girl in the class. Someone you would almost overlook...
With a whirring of gears, a set of spools turns, unrolling a sheet of printing paper against the negative. The technicians meanwhile spread the patented Polaroid chemical reagent-a viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...
These type things aren't supposed to happen to Harvard. To Columbia and Cornell, perhaps, but not to Harvard, where there's always a hero waiting in the wings, a miracle-maker on 24-hour call...
Three quick strikes and only a few seconds later, the ball rested at the Holy Cross 23, and the call went out for Lowery. Lowery cooly drilled it home from the right hash mark, for the ballgame...