Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This technique contrasts with the long-held theory that interviewers should reach a quota of persons in various categories-poor people, rich people, Republicans, Democrats, etc.-in the same ratio that they exist in the region studied. Lou Harris, Jack Kennedy's favorite pollster, uses randomization, but employs computers to spot-check the reliability of his sampling. If he suspects that his polls did not accurately reflect certain groups, he runs cards, on which the basic characteristics of key election precincts are punched, through a computer until it turns up a precinct that coincides with the types of voters...
...Rather Be Rich. There must be some mistake-this can't be a good movie. It was produced by Ross Hunter, a man who makes bad movies (Magnificent Obsession, Imitation of Life) on principle-the principle that most moviegoers are housewives and most housewives don't care if the story is dull so long as the furniture is interesting. What's more, the picture stars Sandra Dee, a young woman who looks like everything the sociologists say is wrong with American teen-agers and acts as though she can't wait to get the picture over...
Nevertheless, Rich is a good movie-essentially because Producer Hunter hired a talented TV director named Jack Smight, and Smight makes right...
...star-crossed lovers relive an old Cambodian legend, is almost the same as the story of Orpheus. The lovers themselves (Sam El and Narie Hem) are even more beautiful than the lovers in the earlier film-they look like oriental deities sculptured in living flesh. The color is rich and sensuous, and the camera catches dim disturbing glimpses of Angkor Wat, the great stone temple that lies sleeping in the jungles of Cambodia like a monstrous unimaginable spider...
Raised on Burke. Ex-Governor Foot, who is now an adviser to the U.N., believes that the rising tide of animosity of the world's poor nations for the rich will eventually displace the cold war as the greatest threat to peace. Britain, too, once rowed on this flood tide, he says, "but we rowed with it, not against it. The most important thing is to take and hold the initiative. The people must be given a lead, a hope, an assurance that orderly and constructive effort will be worthwhile...