Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart and an elastic conscience. We see him first as a slim, fey, slightly bland youth of 18, living a sheltered life surrounded by tutors and priests. He progresses through the series like a prefab castle, adding pounds and psychological dimensions as if they were rooms. By the final segment, the slender, shy youth has become a man swathed in fat, so overbearing and overburdened that he can barely rise from his chair-much less to his earlier level of greatness. Michell won England's equivalent of the Emmy for his fascinating character study of the complex king...
...mustangs' plight may thankfully be offset by the nation's horse producers, who are currently maintaining a horse-population growth rate between 6% and 8% per year, making the American equine population the fastest-growing segment of animal agriculture...
...format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte to Eric Sevareid at CBS and Howard K. Smith at ABC. Brinkley will also do four one-hour specials a year...
...Berrigans' belligerence, and the actions of the Catonsville Nine, are a strictly Catholic phenomenon. They are not only a protest against the Vietnam war; they are also a defiance of the heavy-handed authoritarianism, the blind nationalism that makes the American Catholic community the most war-mongering segment of the nation. Goaded by the silence of his Church's hierarchy and of its hawkish flocks, the Catholic radical can become a desperado...
Normally, about half of the nation's college graduates go into business, large and small. These days, almost as many go on to graduate study or to schools for law, medicine and the other professions. A much smaller segment of students seek work in Government. Not all the job opportunities are equally promising...