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...Conversation is a film of enormous enterprise and tension. It also gains, because of Watergate, an added timeliness, but it does not depend on it. More than anything, it is a film about moral paralysis, a subject that does not need headlines to lend it importance...
...accounting division in the office of administration is a CPA. The new chief of the office of administration, Robert James, a former management consultant, is computerizing employee records and the previous year's expenditures-detailed accounts of which have never been kept. Bond has asked Missouri companies to "lend" executives for up to six months to study state administration and make recommendations; so far 41 executives have volunteered...
...jugglers, announcers, entertainers and comedians, whose problems have no relation to ours.") The Nixon White House regarded him as a special thorn, and internal memorandums depicted him as a paradigm of the influential journalists who badgered the Administration. Further criticism followed his decision-after retiring from the program-to lend his anchor man's cachet to airline commercials. As board chairman and promoter of Big Sky, a planned $20 million Montana resort area, Huntley was attacked by conservationists...
...swaying in cowboy skirts; liquor-riddled voices straining on old records. To make up for this, the simplicity has got to go, replaced by five instruments doing interesting things all at once. Here it's an electric fiddle, pedal steel, lead guitar, bass, banjo, and drums, and they all lend a propensity for jazz-and-rock-like riffs. The Grateful Dead and the New Riders do this with country music, but their songs are different, trippy and abstract rather than sensual and evocative...
...April of 1967 the American State Department was one of the few organs willing to lend credence to Papadopoulos's fears, While most countries reacted to the news of impending communist revolution disdainfully, Turkey and Portugal were the only NATO nations that viewed matters from the same perspective as the U.S. The United States claimed to be interested in the security of NATO. Yet NATO is ostensibly designed to safeguard freedom and democracy, concepts that didn't jibe with the interests of a totalitarian regime. The coup violated both NATO's humanitarian principles and its strategic military commitments. The defense...