Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task of patrolling the deep positions, where one mistake can mean six points in a hurry for the opposition, has fallen on a talented but very inexperienced crew...
Dunn eventually settled on a wilderness of weatherbeaten dune overlooking Great Peconic Bay and laid out the first 18-hole gold course in America. Dunn hired a crew of 150 Shinnecock Indians from the nearby reservation and began construction on Shinnecock Hills in the summer...
...Midwest is showing its usual hospitality, as much for pecuniary reasons as politeness: a pot of money comes to town when a big-budget movie crew arrives. It is not uncommon for the movie company and crew to spend more than $1 million on lodging, food, props, local extras and other labor. That sum generates nearly four times as much spending power as it percolates through the local economy-and the hosts incur few offsetting expenses. Says Ray Gosnell, vice president for production management at 20th Century-Fox: "There is no need to build roads or schools...
...most aggressive states is Illinois. Its film board has attracted six major productions this year, including The Fury, a Fox $6 million spy thriller starring Kirk Douglas. Governor James Thompson lent a state helicopter to the crew to scout locations, waived permits to allow equipment to be hauled across state lines and persuaded the owners of a Lake Forest estate to allow filming in their home. When Director Robert Altman was filming A Wedding, for 20th Century-Fox distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash...
Turner who works as hard at racing as he did in in building his Atlanta-based business empire (an outdoor advertising company, two TV stations, the hapless Atlanta Braves), has no intention of losing the trophy. "We came to win," he exhorted his ten-man crew last week, "and that's what we're doing, right?" Among the eagle-eyed yachting fraternity that swarmed into historic Newport for the best-of-seven series, there was nearly unanimous agreement. Despite obvious progress since their last challenge three years ago with Southern Cross, Australian Real Estate Developer Alan Bond...