Word: markers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's Bob Clayton, running on the inside, was apparently forced off the track by Army runners. Clayton was surrounded when he came around the corner just beyond the quarter mile marker. As he was pushed aside, his spikes caught the edge of the tartan track which was slightly above the rest of the surface and he fell...
...mining history, the blast at Monongah that killed 361. She signed the agreement, but still hopes for the recovery of her husband's body: "I just bought two plots at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Even if they don't find my husband, I'll have a marker there for him, and that'll be our place." Women whose husbands were closest to the blast fear that their bodies were cremated and want the agreement's assurance that the shafts will be "inviolate ... in perpetuity...
...relate to possible criteria for formal choices, not strikes or demonstrations. Their political films are about making political films. Works like See You at Mao and Pravda are definitely not intended to incite the masses; rather they are to serve as objects of analysis for Glauber Rocha, Chris Marker's SLON group in Belgium, the Medvedkin group in France, and other cadres of political filmmakers wrestling with the creation of revolutionary forms...
...world's banking federation is concerned, wage and price control represents an elementary remedy for monetary-instability/ depression threats. That is, the problem of inflation, in their view, consists of improving the profitability of currencies as investment purchases (not the speculative return on hot money exchanged in the money marker). The actual material not reflected in inflated money concerns them only peripherally, as a limiting factor. The simple device of "holding the line" on wages can augment rates of return on currency (in this case the dollar) and abort speculative runs against the endangered currency. In other words, the only...
...birthplace during June. Most of them were Texans, although out-of-state license tags dot the asphalt parking lot. They come to see some history on "a ten-minute stop off the road," and politics are unimportant to a father motioning his kids closer to the historical marker while he peers into the range finder of a camera. "You don't have to be an L.B.J. fan to come here," an Oklahoman explains...