Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This movie asks the question: "Why do you suppose we pick the people we pick to love?" A character actually comes out and says that-rhetorically, to be sure, but without shame. As the question hangs in the air, like a cartoon balloon chiseled out of concrete, it raises another, more interesting point: Why do people make movies that ask questions like this...
...floor fight on the bill. Increasingly, it looked as if the President had enough Republican and conservative Democratic votes in the Senate to prevent an override of his veto of the tariff deferral. Even if they lacked the necessary votes, Republicans were prepared to filibuster and try to pick up enough support to prevent cloture. Ullman felt that the Democrats could live with the $1 bbl. oil increase if the President would hold off on the subsequent hikes...
...this, Johnson sometimes denounced bugging as if it were original sin. "The worst thing in our society would be to not be able to pick up a phone for fear of it being tapped," he told one of his men. "I don't want any wiretapping," he said when he was designing the Safe Streets Act. However, Senator John McClellan talked him into including a provision for wiretapping. The Congress then provided more authority than agreed upon, so Johnson ordered the Justice Department not to use that power...
...return of veteran diver Dave English who was out for the first half of the season because of surgery, will greatly help Harvard's diving efforts. Mike Toal and Roger Johannigman have performed well this year so that the Crimson is looking to pick up at least a second and third in the two diving events...
Duncan Pyle and Tom Wolle should take the fist two places in the backstroke while Ted Fullerion and Ivor Gordon look to do the same in the breaststroke. Brent Haywood and captain Dave Brumwell will be counted on to pick off two places...