Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czar of Russia, issued a ukase claiming the entire Pacific Coast of North America and the surrounding seas down to the 51st parallel (the northern tip of Vancouver Island). Monroe directed his Secretary of State-a prickly genius named John Quincy Adams-to draft a protest. Foreshadowing a major segment of the Monroe Doctrine, Adams informed the Russian minister in Washington "that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments...
...that a union victory would mean the closing of the plant, or atleast a drop in wages to the national minimum scale of $1.15 an hour. The foremen were widely believed. Management also persuaded a great many Negroes to vote against the union by arguing that if the "radical" segment of the colored community came to power Chestertown's white leaders would get angry, and withdraw from Negroes such benefits as they have been granted...
...bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star of the Apollo Project, the Advanced Saturn (C5) has yet to take final shape, but its most critical segment, the great F-1 engine developed by North American Aviation, Inc., is familiar to thousands of startled Californians as the loudest inhabitant of their state...
...preamble to a discussion of "The Tax-Cut Decision" [July 20], the point is made that President Kennedy "made up his mind to test after the Russian blasts began, then waited to announce U.S. resumption until almost every segment of the nation was behind his decision." Is it not painfully obvious that he used every available facet of Government propaganda as well as an easily duped Fourth Estate to convince people that "there was no other choice"? GEORGE A. RICHTER JR. Abington...
...criticism that could be made about this film is that there is almost too much fun and laughter involved each second. Where each segment or individual sequence could be really sidesplitting by itself, the whole series gives the audience too much to take at once. Just the same, this film, pieced together from the past, is a welcome and very enjoyable evening's entertainment...