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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials said they hope that the $85,000 system will increase efficiency and save money...
While pretending to capture the air of cynicism and moral defeat that has arisen in the age of Watergate, Hollywood producers have seized on the opportunity to create brutal action epics, devoid of sense or feeling save the kick of violence. Audiences could once turn to the screen for fables of certainty; directors like John Ford obliged them with sagas of just men fighting for a righteous citizenry. Now we are not even asked to lament nostalgic visions of an idealistic America. With-it Hollywood hacks would simply have us snicker at the degradation that seems to be surrounding...
Painstakingly acquired over 20 months and neatly catalogued, the lode of evidence mined by the Watergate special prosecutor could save the House Judiciary Committee months of work in its impeachment inquiry. Yet the committee has been slow to go into court to seek the material from Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. It finally began to move to get it last week, even as its staff continued weighing the various options in a complex legal situation...
...found that four of the men had a malignancy called angiosarcoma of the liver. Last week the cancer was discovered in two more of the employees and confirmed as a contributing cause of death in an employee of a West Virginia plant. Although the action comes too late to save the workers who have already contracted the disease (six have died of it), the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has taken steps to reduce the risk to other workers by lowering allowable levels of exposure to vinyl chloride in the plant...
Saddles is about a hip black sheriff who must overcome racial prejudice and the machinations of a corrupt frontier political machine. With very little help, he manages to save the citizens of Rock Ridge from being driven away so that a railroad may pass more cheaply through their land. But so what? The important thing is that the chief villain is named Hedley Lamarr, and the actors insist on mispronouncing his name; that at a town meeting an anguished citizen complains that "people are being stampeded and the cattle raped"; that a black labor gang, ordered to sing a Negro...