Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from the insouciance of the story, the pleasures of Bingo Long can be attributed mainly to some ingratiating lead performances. Billy Dee Williams, an actor of impermeable charm, plays Bingo, a veteran pitcher for the Negro National League who figures the time has come to stand up against the...
The U.S. Department of State's Munitions Control office told MIT in May that parts of the program "would not be in furtherance of the foreign policy and national security objectives of the U.S.," Dr. Thomas F. Jones, MIT vice president for research, said earlier this week.
After the report appeared, Jones said he and an official of National Taiwan University, which had contracted for the program, discussed possible alternative technologies for the program. He added that they decided there was not enough time left in the program to make a change practical.
Jones said the project first came to his attention in early spring following demonstrations which "rang the alarm." He said the MIT Office of Research had approved the program when it began two years ago but it received about 12 proposals a day and thus did not have time to...
The film shows a healthy, handsome and cheerful people organized as a matrilineal society under tribal chiefs, or "Gran Men." Their laws and customs date back to a precolonial Africa uninfluenced by European rulers. In one scene, a group of pallbearers carries a coffin from door to door so that...