Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith had hoped that by shutting the border and cutting road and rail links with Zambia (while leaving rail lines open for copper shipments) he could force the Zambian government to crack down on the rebels. The scheme backfired badly. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who had previously given the guerrillas little encouragement, promptly stopped shipping copper through Rhodesia, a move that could mean financial disaster for the country's money-losing railroad. "History may prove it was the wrong decision," Smith conceded last week...
Producer Craig Gilbert's television documentary "An American Family" was an ambitious project; nothing quite like it had ever been tried. Gilbert and a crack camera crew moved in with the William C. Loud family of Santa Barbara, Calif., in early spring of 1971 and spent seven months recording the day-to-day lives of the seven family members. From over 300 hours of raw film. Gilbert prepared a series of 12 hour-long documentaries that have been airing weekly on educational television since the first of the year...
...ambiguous-to keep wage and price decision makers in line by making them guess where the line is. Another White House adviser promised that surveillance of big corporations and unions will remain rigorous. The COLC, he said, will be looking for "the patsy"-some conspicuous Phase III violator to crack down on hard...
Within 72 hours after an agreement is signed in Paris, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces plan a coordinated charge into Saigon-controlled cities, villages and rural hamlets. The crack North Vietnamese 7th Division, stationed north of Saigon, has had standing orders since October to "force enemy personnel to withdraw. Gain control of many more hamlets. Motivate the people and support them to rise up, kill tyrants and break the enemy's oppressive control." Another Communist directive orders units to "incite inhabitants to engage in street demonstrations to welcome the victories of the revolution," and to "lead enemy troops...
...crack in the serial wall? Definitely. . . . explosante/fixe . . . will offer no solace to the many who would like today's composers to get back to good old melody, but it should send a few shock waves throughout the international composing ranks. Boulez is searching for a harmonic scheme that he finds wanting in serialism, but without a return to the strictures of traditional tonality. "To find that," says Boulez, "is the great problem of our time...