Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most Niemans are basically unhappy about something in the profession or in the work they were doing," Bill Stockton, an AP science writer and current Nieman says. "But the people who have come here find the year has greatly changed them. Their experience can be translated into tangible things that the world of journalism can see. You have a year to be thoughtful and reflective in a highly charged intellectual atmosphere--and it puts it all together...
...Ogden did not have troubles enough, its major food-processing firm, Tillie Lewis Foods of Stockton, Calif., was hard hit by the Government ban on cyclamate sweeteners, a key ingredient of its canned fruit and vegetable line. After suffering a loss in 1969, Lewis switched into the weight-control market with the low-calorie Tasti Diet line of canned goods. Tasti Diet has been a winner from the start, and last year the food division posted profits of $6.5 million...
...City. John Huston has cut the meat out of Leonard Gardner's fictional slice of the life of small-time boxers in Stockton, California. The characters are like the little people of Depression dramas--you see "em and weep, but they're just not complex enough to keep you interested. Huston's attempts at poetry are only intermittently effective. Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges are good. Susan Tyrell is terrible...
There was a time when John Huston understood such people and such desperation. A comparison between his evocative rendering of being on the bum in Tampico in The Treasure of Sierra Madre and the windbag theatrics of stumbling around Stockton, Calif., in Fat City is a measure of how careless an artist Huston has become. The movie is offhandedly shot, with none of Huston's old feeling for the look and the effluence of a place. Worse, he seems detached from his characters here, aloof and even slightly indifferent...
...United Press International Moscow Peter A Jay '62 of the Washington Post: Michael R. McGovern of the New York Daily News: Edward C. Norton of The Record. Hackensack, N.J.; J. Michael Ritchey of KERA-TV. Dallas, Tex.; Carl W. Sims, editor of the Bay State Banner, Boston, William Stockton of The Associated Press, Los Angeles: Luther R. West of the State, Colombia, S.C.: Edwin N. Williams of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss.: and Charles R. Wyrick, of Newsday...