Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands of aging mainlanders. Despite good intentions, the party congress did not appreciably change that pattern. The newly elected central committee includes twoscore fresh faces, but among its 150 full and alternate members, only 13 are Taiwanese. A new party advisory committee for the Gimo, who is also director-general of the Kuomintang, seats only one Taiwanese among its eleven members; the average age of that body is an august 75. The central committee list is headed by Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, 59, the Gimo's oldest son and his probable successor...
...election night, and the old parties are awaiting the government's victory. In the composing room of the right-wing newspaper Il Tempo, a makeup man puts the banner line into the form: GOVERNMENT WINS WITH LARGE MAJORITY. A state television news director instructs his assistant: "Feed in the usual commentary-that one we used in 1969 will do fine." Forecasters have predicted a government victory, because again, as in previous elections, voters are unable to remember candidates' names. At Communist Party headquarters on Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), Party Boss Luigi Longo...
...DeBakey research team and that it had been used without adequate testing and without DeBakey's knowledge or permission. The National Heart Institute has asked DeBakey and Cooley if federal funds were used in the development of the device. If so, said Dr. Theodore Cooper, NHI's director, its use was subject to federal guidelines covering human experimentation. He explained that these guidelines stipulate that "if experiments are going to be carried out on man, every effort must be made to ensure that the experiment is safely conceived, that the procedure is done with the informed consent...
...last week on NBC. Italian truck drivers be came Roman legionnaires; butchers were metamorphosed Into gladiators (one burly swordsman was nearly reduced to tears When he got a scratched ear); a woman switched from modern bourgeois matron to sadistic Messalina. These time-machine gambols took place on Fellini: A Director's Notebook, one program in the NBC series called "Experiment in Television" that had managed to escape from the usual Sunday-afternoon intellectual ghetto to prime time...
...preview of Notebook, complete with Bacchic frenzies and the ghostly prowl of transvestites in the night-shrouded Colosseum, they dropped the option even though it was too late for NBC to change the schedule. Notebook's love affair with Imperial Rome resulted from the fact that Director Federico Fellini made it while at work on a movie based on the bawdy remnants of Petronius' Satyricon. His declared intention in making the TV film was to portray "an exalted picturesque, neurotic world," and he hoped to "activate a series of stimuli and responses." He succeeded, and not only with...