Word: stopwatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stopwatch ready, calling for "trucking shots" and "dissolves" like some female Fellini, she directs each film with painstaking care. With a variety of shots, she forces the viewer to follow the camera as it roams with the eye of a connoisseur across a canvas or a Greek façade. To dramatize the relationship of life to art, she has juxtaposed film clips of an Olympic sprinter with photographs of a runner molded in bronze, contrasted bullfight scenes with paintings by Goya and Picasso...
...qualifications for the secretarial job on the Washington staff of Maryland's Senator-elect Joseph Tydings, 36, were pretty impressive. She was an ultraloyal Democrat who had worked seven days a week for Tydings during the election campaign, could type 90 words a minute, take dictation at the stopwatch speed of 100 words per, and seemed a cinch for the job. But a girl can't have everything. It came out that leggy, blonde Mary Ellen Terziu, 23, also moonlighted her nights away as a bunny at the Baltimore Playboy Club. Up went the chances...
...Planes fly often, but fares are high. And the Old Tokaido Line, opened in 1891, is so clogged with a quarter of the nation's passenger and freight traffic that passengers often reserve seats a fortnight ahead, marshaling yards overflow with goods, and maintenance crews repair tracks, with stopwatch timing, between trains only minutes apart...
Auditing Forays. For Government contractors, the new toughness means mountains of paper work to justify every figure. A Midwest contractor found a Navy procurement officer stalking through his plant with a stopwatch, doing time-motion studies on the employees to see if the company could do the Navy's work more cheaply. The General Accounting Office, whose hawk-eyed civil servants dog the Pentagon procurers, has a San Francisco headquarters from which 85 auditors foray out to make sure that company costs are being held down. Chicago's Hallicrafters Co., which had a fixed-price contract to deliver...
...theory that marines do not pause in combat for pullups and pushups, he has discarded such exercises from the annual physical fitness tests, instead has his men climb ropes, march three miles, dash 50 yards to retrieve a presumably wounded buddy while being timed by a stopwatch. He works the men longer, stressing night training and field exercises...