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...progress in automotive safety by demanding that technical innovations such as the collapsible steering column be installed as soon as they are developed. Then foot-dragging on features such as seat belts would not occur again. And with federal regulation, the public will no longer have to depend on showmen such as Mr. Nader to enforce highway safety...
Variety Lights, Fellini's first feature film, gives you a chance to observe the director's customary conflict between honesty and sophistication, before his own sophistication set in. Fresh from five years on the vaudeville boards, Fellini portrays his colorful troop of two-bit showmen with both insight and sympathy...
...Will Stand by the Showmen...
World Town Meeting. In Europe and the U.S., television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as a closeup of Houston's great Surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in the streets of Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town. The Town Meeting of the World turned international as Barry Goldwater in New York, Dean Rusk and Sir Alec Douglas-Home in London, and Maurice Schumann in Paris...
...sciences courses), time spent in lectures is a waste both for the instructor and the student. Mimeographed transcripts of lectures--which rarely change anyway--would give the student more information in less time. It would be foolish, of course, to dispense entirely with lectures, as some professors are superb showmen with clear inspirational value. But by making lectures one of the College's major contributions to formal education, too much emphasis is placed on acting ability. And only a few men say more in lectures than in books...