Word: old
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under old rules, graduate students had been permitted to delay induction only to the end of the semester. The delay now will cover the entire academic year...
...main trouble is that Wexler expects the events to tell us that media lie rather than expressing it through the humanity of his characters. To have a boy love pigeons and dream of the old golden fields of West Virginia is a filmmaker's cliche of true human value. Wexler is clearly less at home with people than with the news events, himself. With this in mind, it's easy to understand why he arbitrarily ended the story of his characters with violence, and then turned the camera on his own movie crew before...
...design the show to restore "the tradition of imagination and fancy that nurtured the technological achievement" of man's leap into space. If the visitor can ignore for a moment the debate over federal spending priorities and the space program's other political blemishes, he can actually recapture that old excitement about space flight-the thrill of these first Shepard, Grissom, and Glenn flights almost a decade...
...march on the first day through Chicago's Old Town, to unite demonstrators and initiate the idea of marching and street fighting...
Late in the summer. Nader held a news conference to air his charges of government secrecy, and he testified before another Congressional committee that was digesting various plans for a Consumer's Agency in the federal government. All the while, Nader kept the pressure on a number of his old enemies: the titans of Detroit who-Nader said-were still dragging their feet on auto safety: the Agriculture Department's meat inspectors, who didn't seem to be trying hard enough to keep the rotten carcasses out of the stores: the United Mine Workers leadership, which cared more about keeping...