Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressive Advisers. To gain academic respect, Winstead first acquired an impressive advisory board that will screen all faculty appointments and help set academic policy. Prestigious it is: members include James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation; Frederick Seitz, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Emilio Segrè, Berkeley's Nobel Laureate in physics; Athelstan Spilhaus, former dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. That kind of backing helped Winstead overcome a handicap of most new schools: lack of accreditation. Impressed by the credentials of Nova's advisers, the Southern Association...
...parent company's European vice president in 1965. During seven years on the job in Germany, Andrews launched a period of growth that has seen Ford's share of the German auto market increase from 7% to 18%. In his new post, he will try to help Ford weather the effects of European recession. Last year the company's auto sales were off 12% in Britain, 5% in Germany...
...seven stories suffer from the same fault: they start promisingly but run down, like jokes with weak punch lines. Part of the fault is MacLaine's. Despite heavy help from the makeup and wardrobe departments, she seldom departs from her customary screen self, and all seven women suffer from an unflatter ing family resemblance. Most of the blame, however, must fall on De Sica, who has wasted such talented actors as Arkin, Sellers, Michael Caine, Philippe Noiret and Vittorio Gassman in a ponderously directed, flaccid work. Better than anyone else, he should know that a tour de farce...
...teeter helplessly on the brink of war. Someone, it develops, has been hijacking both countries' space capsules as they orbit the earth, spiriting them away to places unknown. Both countries accuse each other, unaware that Peking and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are behind it all. Naturally, the only one who can help is 007, who interrupts a love scene in Hong Kong with his Chinese mistress for the tiresome task of saving the world once more. Conveniently, the assignment takes him only as far as Japan, which gives the camera crews a chance to show a travelogue of Bond orienting himself...
Bond himself seems to be weakening: for the first time he needs outside help to finish the job. After finding the cache of stolen rockets in the defunct volcano, he is captured. As Blofeld prepares to annihilate him, hundreds of Japanese commandos-the Eastern equivalent of the U.S. cavalry-come to the rescue. At the finale, the volcano blows its stack. Alas, the effects are ineffective. The outer-space sequences would be more appropriate in a grade school educational short entitled Our Amazing Universe, and the volcanic climax is a series of clumsy process shots that no one took...