Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considers itself Democratic, 29% Republican, and the balance independent. But many Republicans think that the G.O.P. now has the opportunity to capitalize on developing new alignments. Strategists differ on just how to turn the trick. One approach-which might be called the politics of retreat-is outlined in fascinating detail in a book published last week titled The Emerging Republican Majority...
...ideological disagreements at its June convention in Chicago, the S.D.S. determined that it would renew and intensify its efforts to infiltrate labor and create a revolutionary worker-student alliance. Similar "work-in" programs had been attempted before on a smaller scale, but this time the campaign was planned in detail. A lengthy Work-in Organizers Manual was circulated among S.D.S. chapters. At the convention, both factions endorsed the alliance concept, although in somewhat differing forms...
...Williams King, 38, younger brother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and himself an active civil rights leader; of accidental drowning in his swimming pool; in Atlanta. For years, "A.D.," as he was called, worked in his brother's shadow as an organizer and detail man. In 1963, after the Ku Klux Klan bombed his home, he led movements for racial integration in Birmingham and open housing in Louisville. In 1968, he assumed his slain brother's co-pastorate at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta...
...right, given the style and the technical different relationships, there is no excuse for spending half of our viewing time in close-medium one0short, mainly contemplating Paul Brennan's dejected visage. The best documentary camera work (Ricky Leacock, sometimes) is distinguished by its description of the whole in the detail, the capturing on hands in Leacock's Mothers day, for instance). Salsman, despite almost mythic possibilities (an existence trapped in motels with their cleaning women; ion rented cars, with their clean ashtrays, in strange locals; living rooms never to be visited again; a thousand children played with and forgotten...
...between the two bases. While working to keep the road open and in good repair, the American engineers could not depend upon the South Vietnamese for protection. On several occasions, the South Vietnamese refused to respond to pleas by ambushed engineers. Four weeks ago, a 20-man ARVN guard detail deserted a U.S. working party when North Vietnamese ambushers opened fire. Cursing their allies, the surviving Americans finally managed to drag their dead and wounded to safety. Over an eight-week period, the U.S. engineers lost 19 men killed and 120 wounded, in part because they received inadequate protection from...