Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with wire-service teleprinters clacking behind him, he and his associates have kept a close watch on the spasmodic flow of the world's news. They have assigned stories, selected pictures, edited and rewritten copy. They have argued the relative news value of a battle-action file from Viet Nam and bloody films of students rioting in Djakarta; they have checked on the latest peace rumor out of Washington, the day's speeches at the U.N. Now, deadline is approaching, and the big problem is whether that World Series game out in Chavez Ravine will end in time...
...seven rows back peering sourly through a cluster of elbows. He is the symphony musician - bored, frustrated and anonymous. So he didn't become the second Heifetz as everybody back in Glen Falls said he would. There was nothing else to do but join a big-city symphony, file lock-step onto the stage - no talking, please - and, at the nod of the imperious maestro, saw away mechanically at the Brahms First for the 101st time...
...Athletic Department has also collected a file of coaches' reports describing requirements of their individual sports and facilities that they have seen during trips to other colleges...
...primary had been verified, the movement grew, and Democrats began to desert the party in force. Two of Baltimore's most powerful union leaders declared their support of Pressman the Independent. (The union leaders had contributed heavily to the Sickles primary campaign fund while the rank-and-file membership voted overwhelmingly for Mahoney and will probably do so again in November...
...film (aside from Sellers) are John Mills and Ralph Richardson as the brothers but they are given little enough to do. Most of the action is centered around miscast, awkward, misty-eyed Michael Caine whose guardian is one of the brothers (you may have liked him in The Ipcress File but wait till you see him now) and his courtship with an orphan whose guardian is the other surviving brother. In an eminently forgettable role, she is a caricature of supposed Victorian modesty (her cousin's hobby of collecting eggs is deemed "obscene" and she practically faints when Caine...