Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken two paces to the left and three to the right. There is a core of consistency in his work that reconciles the "left" tone of U.S.A. with the "rightist" color of District of Columbia. Big Business was the enemy in U.S.A. In District, the focus of power shifted: the first novel in that trilogy dealt with the power of Communism to corrupt innocent idealism; the second was a primer on political demagoguery; the third a parable directed against the emotional debaucheries of the New Deal in its Popular Front war phase. Most Likely to Succeed, his latest novel, repeats...
...will ultimately pose bigger problems. This is the potential "Great Lakes Megalopolis," which will soon stretch without interruption from Pittsburgh to Chicago, by the year 2000 will contain a population of 45 million. Fortunately, in the opinion of City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, the great heartland megalopolis has a natural focus and headquarters in Detroit -if the city will only rise to the challenge...
Tsien Hsue-shen's Degrees. Yet any picture of Caltech solely as thinker and M.I.T. solely as doer is out of focus. While M.I.T. draws no less than $126 million of its annual operating budget of $178 million from work for the Defense Department and NASA, Caltech has 181 federal research contracts and operates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will spend $242 million this year. Caltech's practical knowledge made JPL a pioneer in tactical missiles, in launching the first U.S. satellite, in making a soft landing on the moon and in taking close-up pictures...
CAMPAIGN '66 (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Mike Wallace reports on "The Democrats.' In 1966 the Great Society meets its first election test and the program will focus n some of the 48 freshmen Congressmen who rode L.B.J.'s coattails to Washington in 1964, including one who is All the Way With LB.J. and another who calls himself a Bobby Kennedy...
...focus of the fun is a hero (Rod Taylor) who is trained to be an 007 but turns out to be an 0. Assigned by The Chief (Trevor Howard) to assassinate an enemy agent, Taylor discovers that he is just too nice a guy to do such dirty work. So he hires a thug to plug his victims, and starts chasing his favorite redhead (Jill St. John) around a pad that looks like the 9th Regiment Armory lined with orange velvet. The Bondoggle ends, however, when the redhead comes up with an angle as well as a wiggle, and from...