Word: going
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago with the oil companies. Then it was a way of inducing men to accept jobs in Africa and the Middle East. Today, the extras apply almost everywhere and sometimes add 50% to a paycheck. International Harvester pays its employees a bonus of as much as 20% to go abroad, and Pan American grants a flat $75 a month. General Motors expects its men to pay 15% of their salaries for rent, but the company defrays seven-eighths of anything above that level. Like many other corporations, G.M. also pays for the children's private school and flies...
Once upon a time, Hollywood was a town without a country. To portray small-town America, camera crews would generally go no farther than the studio lot, where an idealized Main Street stood gleaming in the California sun. It is much to the credit of Director Francis Ford Coppola that he refused to accept that kind of prefabricated fakery. Bundling a handful of actors and technicians into a fleet of cars, he drove from New York to Colorado, filming a story about a young married woman on the run from responsibility. The result, called The Rain People, has such...
Almost certainly the initiative for the meeting came from Moscow. Japanese Communist Party Chairman Sanzo Nosaka said that Kosygin used his North Vietnamese hosts as go-betweens to let the Chinese know that he wanted to stop off in Peking. According to Nosaka, Kosygin made his request as soon as he reached Hanoi, but Peking had not bothered to reply by the time he departed five days later. Kosygin flew to Calcutta and was en route to Dushanbe in Soviet Central Asia when the Chinese leaders finally approved the meeting. Though Kosygin's long detour was interpreted...
Realizing that this is the first disciplinary hearing since McCarthy, the Committee gave Stauder another year, in part to find another job, but more important because, as the report stated, "the responsibilities which go with a Corporation appointment.... have been obscured by the failure to take disciplinary action in cases where faculty participation in or encouragement of disruptive activities were widely believed to have occurred...
...Joint Committee's second reason for keeping Stauder this year is: "In the light of what has occurred at Harvard since the McNamara incident, it would be fair to take into consideration that for some of the younger members of the Faculty, the responsibilities which go with a Corporation appointment as an officer of instruction have been obscured by the failure to take disciplinary action in cases where Faculty participation in or encouragement of disruptive activities were widely believed to have occurred...