Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movies there, you don't go to be entertained; you go to study." Starved for recreation, he began visiting Peking's African embassies "to hear music, to dance and to talk freely." The Chinese did not like it, urged him to break off contact with the Africans. When he asked to leave China, they quickly agreed...
Sheer Frustration. Unlike the affluent and aggressive contact men maintained in Washington by business and labor, the discreet university lobbyists are less concerned with shaping new legislation than with helping their schools take advantage of laws already on the books. Typical of these college representatives is Mark Ferber, 36, a Ph. D. in political science from U.C.L.A., who represents the nine campuses of the University of California. Ferber defines his job as mainly "just reading bills and advising the university on what effect they will have." Rowan Wakefield, who represents the State University of New York and its 58 branches...
...ever since it landed on the moon almost four weeks before, seemed incapable of picking up radioed signals and translating them into the commands that would awaken the space traveler's other instruments. Day after day, the scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena tried to make contact; day after day, their only response was silence...
Riddled with guilt and anxiety, Pinter's people are Kafkaesque in that they cannot evade, placate, or even contact the unseen powers. He deals in archetypes that subtly evoke family figures, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters. The two brothers who take in and then evict the scrofulous bum in The Caretaker might be doing it to their own father. Pinter's characters are both strange and familiar with one another, as members of a family are. There is a trace of incest in his plays, and his characters take cover behind a smoke screen of language that...
Volpe's staff had been unable to contact Fernandes by last Friday afternoon, which was nearly a week after the close of the convention, but they were no longer quite so bewildered. They felt sure that Fernandes would be the Republican nominee for treasurer even if he did not sign the papers in time; 10,000 signatures would place Fernandes' name on the primary ballot. Furthermore, Fernandes' chances of election were greatly increased by his absence. The peculiar details of his endorsement and of the frantic Republican efforts to reach him were widely publicized. Overnight Fernandes became known at least...