Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OPERATION: ENTERTAINMENT (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A chance for stay-at-homes to see the shows performed for G.I.s around the world. In the premiere of a weekly series: Impressionist Rich Little, Singers Vikki Carr and the Lennon Sisters take the stage for Marines at Camp Pendleton in California...
...open-air Shakespeare summer festival in Central Park, Papp has proved his ability to do the Bard straight. This time he does Shakespeare free and fancy. To a background of mind-bending rock music, his characters speak of Denmark, although they are costumed to suggest a modern military camp. Yet it is abundantly clear that the time and place of the action are any time and any place, no time and no place. Papp, in other words, has located Hamlet deep in the mind of its characters, which, it may be argued, was Shakespeare's intent. The results...
...when they leave school, most young men must also leave the camp. Roped off from Lebanese jobs by an inability to get work permits, just as they are isolated from Lebanese daily life in modern Sidon, hundreds of them have left to take jobs in Saudi Arabia and such oil-rich sheikdoms as Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, sending part of their paychecks back to their families. Several hundred others have gone by secret mountain trails into Syria, where they undergo training with El Fatah or one of the other terrorist groups that send commandos into Israel to avenge their fathers...
...television interview in Sao Paulo, Travancas described a big new crackdown on 3,000 delinquent companies. "If we were to look into all business returns in Sao Paulo," Travancas told his interviewer, "there would not be enough jail space to hold the tax evaders." Asked if a concentration camp were not the answer, Travancas joked that it might be "a good idea." The next day, Sao Paulo newspapers bannered the news that Travancas planned to send all Sao Paulo businessmen to concentration camps. Amid the resulting uproar, Costa saw his chance and fired Travancas. Henceforth, said the government, tax collections...
...like Esso Europe fascinate Jersey executives because Haider, as a 38-year veteran of a longtime conservative company, might have been expected to go by the well-thumbed company book. But in the course of his career, Haider has often dared to be different; living in an Oklahoma oil camp in the 1930s, he was the only employee who stubbornly refused to cut his lawn at company orders, and was nearly fired...