Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred years ago last week, about 500 Irish and Chinese laborers, politicians, railroad men and prostitutes gathered on a lonely plateau at Promontory, Utah, to witness a momentous event: the joining of East to West by the first transcontinental railroad. Central Pacific President Leland Stanford picked up a silver sledgehammer, swung at. the final spike and missed. Union Pacific Vice President Thomas Durant took his turn-and also missed. Finally, a Union Pacific laborer stepped up and drove it home. A waiting telegrapher tapped out the message: "The Pacific railroad is completed...
...week's end, in a speech to the Gaullist party's central committee, Pompidou made his most open bid so far for the vote of disaffected centrists. The referendum indicated a "desire for change," he said. He favored "the enlargement of Europe" and the development of a "European political consciousness"-both of which suffered under De Gaulle's domineering leadership. Clearly, Pompidou was promising a government that would significantly alter De Gaulle's eleven-year legacy...
...should be noted that in accepting this contract Harvard University wished to protest, in strongest terms, the so-called "Anti-Riot Provision." Practically speaking, the Provision is unenforceable and without reasonable relationship to the central purposes of the Act... (It is) wholly inconsistent with the nature, purposes and responsibilities of the University...
...turn this craftsmanlike play into a craftsmanlike production. One suspects Marcy Schuck of being a versatile actress when she appears first as Libby, the roommate, and the suspicion is confirmed when she returns as Mrs. Fern, the mother. Sandal LaPharque also does a creditable job with the single, central role of Randy. The men, however, are somewhat more questionable. David Baughan, a James Dean of the skateboard set, sits a little too heavily on his character's affectations. Both Ken Evans and Judson St. victor do their share of honest work in lesser roles; one suspects both would be happier...
...CENTRAL feature of this devastating carnival is a game devised by Michael in which each person places a phone call to the one person "he has truly loved." As the characters take their turns, they simultaneously expose secret reserves of despair almost unbearable to watch...