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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers: temperatures of 72° F to 78° F, humidity of 20% to 60%. The engineers' studies also show that under unfavorable conditions, worker productivity falls, on-the-job accidents increase, and employee errors rise. Not to mention frustration levels. "What we're up against," declares Fred Crawford, director of the Center for Research in Social Change at Atlanta's Emory University, "is having our personal freedoms and choices so circumscribed that ordinary citizens are being turned into lawbreakers." Crawford also believes that national habits will change...
...stories filed in the New York Times information bank. Energy-saving suggestions and automotive news, theater directories and wine guides, horoscopes and biorhythms. For the academic, language tutorials and physics lessons. Recipes for the culinary minded, general ledgers and inventories for businessmen, backgammon and Monopoly for children. Not to mention information on income tax deductions and mortgage payments. Indeed one can even order airline tickets through the service...
CLAD IN HEAVY, dark blue raincoats, the policemen shifted their feet nervously on the broken asphalt parking lot and peered into the dense forest beyond the barbed wire fence as raindrops splattered about them. Puddles. Lots of them. Cops and reporters, too. Not on mention an 80-per-cent complete atomic power plant. But where were the anti-nuclear protesters, the non-violent commandos who were planning to scale those eight-foot tall barriers and stage a mass-occupation...
...John Wayne. Just days before he died of cancer, Wayne sent a Mailgram message to every Congressman warning that defeat of the Administration's bill "could result in the closing of the canal, which would quite obviously cripple our shipping, our ports, our exporters, and consumers, not to mention our military strength...
Along the way Tuggle takes a risk by surrounding Morris (Eastwood) with some of the most sentimentalized movie prisoners imaginable. There is an old-tuner called Doc (Roberts Blossom), who raises chrysanthemums and paints portraits, not to mention a literary librarian (Paul Benjamin) and a cuddly Italian (Frank Ronzio) with a pet mouse. Next to these lovable guys, an average Boy Scout troop would seem like a bunch of Bowery bums. The warden (Patrick McGoohan), of course, is a sadistic horror. He speaks in malevolent epigrams ("Some are never destined to leave Alcatraz - alive") and carries on what appears...