Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these pictures, we maintain a Picture Research staff, whose dozen members mine the world each week in search of the singular picture which will best illuminate a story, whether the subject is king, clown or space capsule. The picture researchers-all of them women-have a hectic work week, since in most cases the question as to which picture will be most effective is not answerable until the story has taken shape. Thus the girls must mix the prophetic with the photographic, culling from many sources hundreds of pictures that may or may not satisfy fast-changing requirements of world...
Although the authorities attempted to maintain the strictest secrecy, some interlocking fragments of the investigation fell into place. One FBI agent allowed that "hundreds" of individuals were being checked. One name that surfaced-apparently because of an FBI slip-was that of Eric Starve Gait, 36, of Birmingham. The FBI put out an advisory to police, requesting that Gait be located though not arrested. When word leaked out in Dade County, the FBI rescinded the request but continued to ask questions at Gait's last known address, a Birmingham rooming house...
...same time, Clifford announced that the U.S. force level in South Viet Nam would increase within the next five months, from the presently authorized total of 525,000 men to 549,500. An effort would be made to maintain that ceiling, he emphasized, because of a U.S. policy decision "to turn over gradually the major effort to the South Vietnamese" (see following story...
Both Herba and Coonradt have avoided the central pitfall of director's cinema, that of self-indulgence. Lady Jane, while maintaining a tenuous balance between two realities, one conventional and one dreamlike, remains always rigorously disciplined with careful attention paid to continuity and (truly superb) rhythm in its editing. Coonradt instantly establishes the premise, Jane's struggle to maintain a diffuse personality against her singularly insensitive room-mate and the other girls in her dorm, with an opening shot of Jane outside which surprisingly pulls back to reveal the other girls inside. Equally powerful in its economy is Jane...
...letter said that the Harvard Draft Union will "provide financial assistance and legal aid to those students whose fates will be decided in the courts." The Union will also help maintain contact with students who emigrate to Canada and with those who, although opposing the war, decide to enter the armed forces it said...