Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deaths quickly reached vast proportions. Just as the automobile rapidly permeated and soon began to transform American society, so did the measures adopted to deal with the problem of automobile accidents. It is reasonable to state that fairly soon the average adult American citizen came to have more direct dealings with government through the licensing and regulation of the automobile than through any other single public activity. Not all these dealings were especially uplifting, and some acquired implications all the more ominous because they so quickly came to be regarded as natural. Thus in the course of the regulation...
Draft resistance techniques seem to be changing. Instead of direct attack on draft policies, several resisters are now trying to harass local boards by literally interpreting some draft regulations...
CHARLIE BUBBLES. Albert Finney proves that he can direct as well as act, but leaves some question as to whether he ought to, in this stupefyingly familiar film about a writer who has descended into a hell of modern materialism...
...greater concern to Gaud and the Administration were charges of malfeasance against AID personnel that indirectly touched several longtime associates of Vice President Hubert Humphrey's. Herbert J. Waters, 55, director of AID'S "war on hunger," resigned recently at Gaud's direct request, after three men under Waters' jurisdiction were implicated in a $250,000 flim-flam with a Belgian firm that AID paid for work never done. Waters managed Humphrey's senatorial campaigns in 1954 and 1960, was the Minnesota Senator's administrative assistant until he was appointed...
...student organizations and expel their leaders from the city-an action that would only drive the leftists underground. Even more ominous, the extreme right wing took advantage of the tensions to organize something called the "Berlin Action Committee," a kind of vigilante group that would "restore," by its own direct means, the city's "sense of security and civil courage...