Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston University, disagreed, saying that when the public applies pressure to broadcasters, it is not usually in the interests of quality. He cited the case of program which stirred widespread protest because it used the word "damn." Wiebe said he had objected to the program because of its "semi-fascist theme...
Never were visitors treated with more tender care. While they get used to their new surroundings, the oryxes are kept in semi-isolation and watched constantly by zoo officials. All food and water equipment is sterilized, and the few visitors admitted to the enclosures are made to dunk their shoes in an antiseptic solution to keep out infection. To protect the oryxes from unfamiliar thorns, all cacti except giant saguaros have been removed, and the thorns of the saguaros have been clipped to a height above the reach of an oryx. Every day the zoo fills out a sheet...
...addition to these obstacles the play has the further handicap of a very overworked, highly unbelievable first act which brings together both divorced couples with predictable, semi-slapstick entrances that would stand out as cliches in a TV family situation comedy. Not until the end of the act, when Cynthia Karslake (Joanne Hamlin) breaks down in hysterical tears after being forced to face her former husband, is any sense of reality injected, and this shot is so unexpected it is startling From there on, at least to the last scene, the show is reasonably good entertainment and often very funny...
...After selling thousands of Link Trainers to Allied Air Forces in World War II, Link foresaw the postwar rush to jets, began developing the electronic jet simulator now used by 14 airlines. To get needed development funds, Link in 1954 merged into General Precision Equipment Corp., became a semi-active director. Though its figures are buried within General Precision's, the Link division had 1962 sales of about $30 million, made a profit of about...
...committees and handle routine department business. In addition the chairman's job (now held by David C. McClelland) like that of the Director of the Social Relations Laboratory (Robert F. Bales) has become to much for one man. The Department is so spread out, with so many subdivisions and semi-autonomous agencies under its supervision that it cannot be managed as if it were an ordinary unit of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...