Word: cancellations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Africa, and ending a ban on political meetings. Mudge, a pilot who tirelessly flies his own plane around territory, told an audience of grim whites in the mining town of Tsumeb: "If we can't come to an understanding with them [the nonwhites], we might as well cancel the election and begin to oil our guns. You can't fight a war without gas and ammunition, and we don't have those things ... I have joined hands with them in mutual trust. I will walk the road to the end with them...
...happened, questions were also being raised about Schmidt's handling of the matter. The flap erupted when it seemed that Carter was going to cancel production of the neutron weapon because, among other things, it had received no public support from the West German government. In the face of a scare campaign against the "inhuman" warhead that was skillfully fanned by Moscow, Schmidt apparently would not risk backing the weapon openly, although he did so privately. While the President eventually made no decision-he neither authorized the weapon's development nor definitively dropped it-the episode triggered...
Monday night the cast elected Jacqueline Osherow '78 as the new director, Tim G. Atkeson '79, another producer, said yesterday. After Borowitz and Crist withdrew their works on Tuesday, producers and cast met and decided to cancel the show, Atkeson added...
...character is everything in Chandler's work. The plot of The Big Sleep is impossibly convoluted, turning ever more tightly in on itself as blackmail schemes keep multiplying. It represents a deliberate attempt by the author to cancel out, perhaps even parody, conventional detective story suspense. The idea was to hold the reader's interest with mood, dialogue and above all eccentric, not to say grotesque people. The fact that Writer-Director Winner has been more "faithful" to Chandler's story line than Hawks and his writers (among them, William Faulkner) is no virtue at all. What...
...were guilty only of misdemeanors. Cost: $22.50 per prisoner per day. The county paid $17 a day per room, plus $5.50 for meals for each of the inmates. While only one of the 254-room hotel's regular customers complained about the situation, an insurance company threatened to cancel the hotel's policy. What to do? The authorities simply released 25 prisoners on personal bonds...