Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a low stage. When it is full of people, as it often is, the performers seem very close to the crowd, nearly submerged BY it--which makes it all very warm and intimate--not intimidating as is the case in some circus-like arenas. The simplicity of the setup does mean that acoustics are virtually non-existent but this is made up for by the immediacy and directness of the sound, which comes out quite powerfully amplified over the speaker system...
Under the new setup, the Czech and Slovak halves of the country will each have their own governments to run the affairs of the provinces. The activities of the regional governments will be coordinated by a federal government in Prague that will be administered by a Premier, four Deputy Premiers and a seven-man Cabinet. In addition, there will be a bicameral federal legislature composed of a lower Chamber of People and a Senate-style Chamber of Nations; the delegates of both houses will be drawn from the regional assemblies...
...private initiative in antipoverty efforts and slum rehabilitation. Even Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who as Assistant Secretary of Labor helped create the anti-poverty program and who will serve Nixon as a White House assistant specializing in urban problems, is highly critical of the way the present setup works. In a book to be published this winter, Moynihan calls the current Administration's approach "sloppy" and misguided (see box, page...
Terse Releases. Like many huge corporations, U.S. Steel is far too complex to be run by a single man. Under the new setup, Gott will direct the master planning, while the gregarious Speer will execute and expedite policy decisions. Larry, a poised and articulate public relations specialist, will handle labor negotiations and probably share with Gott the role of the industry's unofficial ambassador to Washington...
...mass deportation of intellectuals from urban centers has more far-reaching goals and implications. Chinese broadcasts emphasize that the mass upheaval is part of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's plan for a revolution in the country's educational policies; he is said to believe that the present setup tends to perpetuate urban, bourgeois values. It is also something of a "rectification" campaign, however, designed to punish the young Red Guards who ran wild after Mao proclaimed his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...