Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Local Control...
Bridwell, and Alan S. Boyd, Secretary of Transportation, have been considered advocates of local control of highway routes. But Bridwell, by leaving the second hearing proposal to the judgment of the Nixon administration, apparently has doomed the anti-Belt fight...
...exploitation bill at the Center. Paramount, the distributor, doesn't know how to handle the film--a realistic shocker about an All-American boy-turned-sniper on the rampage--and despite good reviews and box office on its initial theatrical engagements, they stuck a plea for gun control arbitrarily before the credits, then decided not to open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films by his idols were mishandled by ignorant distributors--Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry and Ford's 7 Women among them; Howard...
...Mission control proclaims a perfect launching for Apollo 11, the first successful attempt to put three men and a diabetic otter in orbit around the moon. Rhody McCoy throws his hat into the New York Mayoralty race...
...Western Co. of North America, an oilfield-service firm, has developed a slippery powder called Instant Banana Peel, which is guaranteed to turn any street rumble into a sit-in. Baltimore-based AAI Corp.. a defense contractor, has come up with a tear-gas grenade with two crowd-control virtues: it has no shrapnel hazard, and it expels its chemicals in seconds-before it can be picked up and pitched back at the police. A company official says that its grenade sales doubled in 1968, and will double again as soon as "the riot season starts...