Word: directs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phillips anticipates that the Republican majority will dominate both the electoral and popular vote. Last week the House Rules Committee cleared a proposed constitutional amendment that would substitute direct popular election for the Electoral College...
...history of radio, Goldstone also relayed the voices back into space where they were picked up by Mike Collins in the command ship, some 70 miles above their source on the lunar surface. The reason for the round trip of nearly half a million miles: Collins was in direct radio line with the LM for only 15 minutes during each two-hour orbit of the moon...
...Surgeon," never "Doc"), and the spacecraft communicator, or "Capcom." White dots sliding across the surgeon's console screen indicate heart and respiration rate's of the astronauts. Capcom, always an astronaut himself, handles all communication with the crew, giving the men who are deep in space a direct link with one of their own. Only in emergencies does anyone else take the microphone. There were none with Apollo...
...back row sit Mission Control's brass, overseeing the entire mission. Alongside Kraft sits NASA's Mission Director George Hage, who has direct lines from his console to the White House, the State Department and NASA's Washington headquarters, but who rarely plays a direct role during a mission. Near by is a Department of Defense representative, whose console has direct lines to all military forces supporting the mission, including recovery teams; for Apollo 11, Air Force Major General Vincent Huston was the Pentagon's man. During most missions, George M. Low, Apollo program manager...
...exposing contradiction, the intellectual limitations of the direct cinema style are stifling to all but the simplest ideas. Don't Look Back never gets us [pat one man's faltering sales pitch. The unreconstructed reality of direct cinema can give us only those dialectic contradictions observable from a single perspective; for dialectic and analytic insight we must look elsewhere...