Word: flotsam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet Flows the Don) into an annoying cornet solo on the unbreakable spirit of Mother Russia. The horns are heard, of course, but Actor Bondarchuk's performance is far too good for them to be oppressive. His hero is a man; when fate reduces him to flotsam, it is a grievous loss, and when he finds the little boy, his relit face shows love. For the most part, Bondarchuk directs as well as he acts. Some of his visual effects are excellent, and with one in particular-a scene in which the delirium of the exhausted escapee is symbolized...
...detect an incoming missile while it is still high in space. As soon as the missile has been "acquired," another radar (Zeus Discrimination Radar) will zero in and decide whether the approaching object is actually an enemy warhead, or a decoy, or a bit of space flotsam. If it is a warhead, the missile will be turned over to a third radar, which will track it until the time comes to shoot it down with a three-stage Nike Zeus rocket. All this will be automatic, and it will happen too quickly for human hand or brain to follow...
Inevitably, the sitdowns washed up some familiar flotsam: the duck-tailed, sideburned swaggerers, the rednecked hatemongers, the Ku Klux Klan. Stores in Durham, Greensboro and Rock Hill, S.C. were closed after getting anonymous telephoned bomb threats. Just as inevitably, the national pressure groups arrived on the scene and helped organize the sitdowns in other Southern cities. Five days after the Greensboro sitdown began, a representative of the Congress of Racial Equality turned up in Greensboro and Durham, announced that CORE was taking over, and advised the sitters to concentrate on just one chain-Woolworth...