Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their own causes, they attach great importance to how it is shown. The day after the Kent State shootings, a crowd of 20,000 young people gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse to protest. As Republican Governor Francis Sargent looked down, the crowd chanted: "Lower the flag! Lower the flag!" Sargent did so. The encounter was an indirect affirmation by youth of the country's most enduring symbol; the lowering of the flag to half-staff seemed to them a proper and necessary tribute to their fellow students who had fallen...
...good deal easier to love the movie, which succeeds on its own level as a full-out piece of entertainment. The actors-Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert-all perform with precision, and Director Joseph Sargent keeps things moving along at a pace more rapid than a galloping pulse. His camera eye is restless and intricate; he seems to have learned a great deal from John Frankenheimer. The real star of the show, however, is Colossus, portrayed by a real computer complex at Universal City studios. If it only can avoid typecasting, it has a solid future in show...
President Nixon, Governor Sargent, the two senators from Massachusetts, the Boston Commissioner of Police, and other government officials have already been notified of the group's plans...
Before the action, the group will notify the police department, Governor Sargent. other government officials. and the local press. "We want them to know why we are putting our bodies on the line and that we are planning no violence," one participant said...
While most of the drive for comprehensive health insurance is coming from Democrats, they do not have the field to themselves. Among Republicans, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller has a plan for both his state and the nation; Massachusetts' Governor Francis W. Sargent has a state scheme, and New York's Senator Jacob Javits has introduced a national bill. Main features of the principal plans...