Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film, Luchine Visconti's Sandra, arrived fresh from a victory at Venice. The audience's hopes were raised even higher during the beautiful opening sequence, where Visconti mounts his camera on the back of a speeding Ferrari and then zooms the lens into a nearby glade to capture a flock of wheeling birds...
Word of that powerful happening mightily multiplied the fold. Moving to Harlem at the depth of the Depression, Father Divine used the alms of his flock to support countless missions that offered generous meals for 150 and immaculate rooms for $2 a week, organized a chain of employment agencies to provide jobs and Divine guidance for the needy. Said a white social worker in Harlem during those years: "Father Divine rendered an inestimable service, and he did it with genuine goodness...
Smiting the Wicked. The flock had its tribulations. In 1941 an apostate sheep sued Father Divine to recover a $3,937 contribution, and a New York court found in her favor. In a moment of godly wrath, he threatened to "evaporate for 1,900 years" but instead moved to Philadelphia. He never forgave New York. Later, in the midst of a dry spell in 1950, he prophesied: "I will dry up your rivers and I will dry up your streams. This water shortage in New York City has been just a slight sketch and reflection of what I will...
...blocs. Tempted by the backward production and marketing practices of egg producers, he bought a chicken farm last February and started applying his methods to the hens. By installing automatic feed conveyor belts and coop cleaning machinery, Schulte has sharply reduced his work force. He has built up a flock of 80,000 hens that lay as many as 50,000 eggs a day−thus making himself West Germany's largest egg producer...
...automobiles, all small but expensive (prices range from $2,186 to $2,347; delivery guaranteed within two to eight years). Bicycles are far more popular -and purchasable-hence India's 21 bike plants produce more than a million two-wheelers a year, and every bullock path has its flock of speedsters, carrying everything from milk to millet...