Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with local union leaders in 13 regional conferences. In some areas, COPE is experimenting with computerized canvassing. By collating the names of all union members with voter rolls, it can give election district workers "walking lists" of unregistered but potentially pro-labor voters. COPE has also mounted a massive, direct mail offensive involving twoscore different pieces of literature that will flood the electorate's mailboxes right up to election day. For all of Meany's rumblings, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans doubt which party will benefit from COPE's campaigning...
...older generation only knew a period when India was under foreign rule," explains Rasesh Mafatlal, 33, one of four brothers who direct Mafatlal Gagalbhai, a vast collection of textile and chemical companies. "We grew up knowing only modern India. Our psychology is entirely different...
...young generation is often a curious blend of old and new. M. V. Arunachalam, 38, who helps direct twelve family companies in southern India, prefers to wear the sheetlike Indian lungi and practices yoga every morning, but he also insisted on automatic elevators in the firm's new nine-story building, and is negotiating with IBM for a computer to handle payrolls and inventory. The Mafatlals, on the other hand, follow the tradition of communal living: the brothers and their families all occupy one five-story, 20-bedroom house. Arvind Mafatlal is a vegetarian, prays an hour every morning...
Comedy relief is supplied by a wilderness fantasy in which big brown bears chase chickens, steal honey and drive off in tractors. As ever, Cinerama achieves its surest effects in direct relation to its forward velocity, now hurtling along a snowy course with a fleet of troikas pulled by frenzied horses, now navigating with loggers on the turbulent Tisza River. The viewer may not feel that he has been through Russia, but he will almost certainly feel that Russia has been through...
...swelling crisis, even to the point of ordering U.S. troops to stay off the streets of Danang and Saigon, suddenly found itself forced to take sides. To "liberate" Danang, Ky needed U.S. planes to move his troops. Next day he got them: six U.S. C-130s, provided on the direct order of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, lifted 1,300 Vietnamese marines to Danang...