Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL. In "The Five Faces of Jazz, Newport 1967," Host Herbie Mann traces the origin of Middle and Near Eastern music with the help of his quintet, then turns the stage over to African Drummer Olatunji, Brazilian Guitarist Luis Henrique and Hungarian Guitarist Gábor Szabo-all demonstrating the form's roots and reverberations in other musical cultures...
...well done, including the observation that "the steady pile-up of unsolved small problems" creates smoldering anger and an eventual sudden explosion. In addition to the explosion type of labor-management negotiations, we are also extensively engaged in what we call "preventive mediation." This effort seeks to help labor and management deal with current problems so that there is no pile-up to detonate. Problem solving can become a successful habit. Government mediators are aiding unions and employers in over 1,200 such preventive-mediation programs throughout the nation...
...Rocky claims great pulling power. On his lapel, the candidate wore a blue-and-white button with the number 218 on it; that, he explained, was the number of Republicans it would take to control the House. "I'm trying to bring home to them that I can help get it," he said...
...Commandos can already claim some victories. Despite a 70% hike in fire insurance rates for 1968, many insurers were canceling protection for U.S.-owned supermarkets and stores. To help them out, Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella earlier this month signed an emergency law forcing insurance companies in Puerto Rico to take on up to $7,000,000 a year in high-risk policies for companies unable to obtain normal insurance coverage...
...blunderbuss way, John Wayne has also tried to help make the war comprehensible. But except for the technical excellence of a few gory, glory-hallelujah battle scenes, Green Berets is strictly for the hawks...