Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just out of camera range; fluttering near by were a director, a movie cameraman and a lighting expert. Tors's pretty secretary, Zale Parry, glided about the group, taking notes on a slate. The movie camera, encased in a weightless "blimp," focused on the desperate struggle of Actor Lloyd Bridges as he grappled with a villain who might have come from Mars...
...decided to study India's politics at the state level rather than beginning at New Delhi," said Lloyd. "In India, the states produce the national leaders. With a federal system composed of states the size of Germany and France, they don't recruit out of parliament as the British do. In fact, one of India's difficulties is finding state leaders capable of being national figures. We couldn't do all fourteen states, so we picked Rajastan in the North and Madras in the South...
...case study of a crucial piece of legislation in each state," said Lloyd. "Land reform is very controversial there and seemed the obvious choice. We also did an opinion survey, which probed the relationship between communication and political development. This involved interviewing a great many villagers. Of course, we couldn't do the interviews ourselves, so we had a team of ten University M.A.'s doing it. One of our problems was that the village women had no idea what an opinion poll was. 'Why do you want to ask me?' they said. 'The headman knows more than...
...Rudolphs feel that India is the logical place for their joint study. "I'm in India by marriage," says Lloyd, whose field is comparative government. Both he and Mrs. Rudolph believe the study of political development should be given as much attention as economic development now receives...
...some ways, India is very much like America at the time of the Revolutionary War," says Lloyd. "I did my thesis on England and America during that period, studying the emergence of the politics of opinion. People in comparative government often mistake Europe for the world. And area scholars often ignore the wider issues. In India, you can see the classic problems of Western institutions unfolding in a non-Western culture. So, you might say, I was fortunate in marrying my wife...