Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make-up of these groups reflects the political schisms that characterized the pre-revolutionary dictatorship. Some organizations are frankly pro-Batista, while others insist they fought against him, and were betrayed by Castro's move into an uneasy alliance with the Communists...
Berkeley students insist that the best clue to the existence of a gut is a disproportionate enrollment of "jocks" (athletes), "Freddys" (fraternity men), "Sallys" (sorority sisters) and "mungs" (beatniks). Stanford's jocks are urged by Athletic Director Charles Taylor to take Health Education 400, in which Professor Oliver E. Byrd grades solely on the number of abstracts of articles in medical journals his students turn in -and he tells them how many abstracts will make an A. He has abolished examinations, gives one test that includes multiple-choice items asking, for example, to "name the required textbook in this...
William Randolph Hirsch. Whatever pseudonyms may do for the individual ego, editors still insist that there are practical reasons to use them. For 50 years, Hearst papers used the byline Cholly Knickerbocker to cover several writers. The single name, editors found, gave the column an identity it would not have had if the names had kept switching. When Society Columnist Aileen Mehle came along, she was dubbed Suzy Knickerbocker, and she took the name with her when she joined the New York Daily News. Then, too, when a publication runs more than one piece by the same person...
...offices have finally given way to younger dinosaurs. Robert Evans of Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily American. Hollywood is bankrolling movies all over the globe, and the cast and crew of a film can sometimes read like the attendance list of a U.N. committee meeting...
Wagers While-U-Wait. Gambling is a state monopoly, and the house always wins. The government take is generally 50% or more of total wagers, compared with a maximum 22% in Las Vegas casinos. Grand larceny? No, just good policy, insist party bureaucrats, who never tire of showing off libraries and schools built with gambling profits (more than $133 million a year in Czechoslovakia, $300 million in Poland). They claim that gambling keeps the people happy, draws inflationary currency out of the economy, and often provides a handy way of disposing of unsold factory output as prizes...