Word: successful
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...independents are also fragmented. "A trucker is definitely independent," says Roy Woodworth, an operator in Wilton, N. Dak. "He likes to do his own thing, so he is kind of hard to organize. We banded together out of necessity." Across the nation, hard-pressed Governors tried without success last week to find someone who could speak for the owner-drivers in their states. In Minnesota, Governor Al Quie gave up, declared a state of emergency, and called out the National Guard. About 100 representatives of small operators met in Washington to draw up plans with William Hill, chairman...
...American servicemen as well as several prominent Turks. The groups consist of small, tightly knit units operating on a hit-and-run basis. Their members come mainly from the upper middle class -youths who have gone beyond an infatuation with Marxism to revolutionary violence. Turkish police have had some success in cracking down on the terrorists. In Izmir, they arrested seven members of a "Marxist-Leninist Turkish Liberation Army Front," an underground organization that may have been responsible for killing the two Americans...
...government's success will be determined largely by two key undertakings: >As part of an assault on unemployment, Sri Lanka plans to build five major dams and reservoirs over the next six years. The $1.2 billion project, more than half financed by foreign aid, will employ 225,000 workers and add greatly to electricity generation and farm irrigation...
...notable study of Hiroshima survivors, Death in Life, and other examinations of disaster, Lifton is writing two books: one on Auschwitz doctors, another on the medical profession under Hitler. As Lifton told TIME Associate Editor John Leo, collaboration by doctors was crucial to the Nazis' warped success. Says Lifton: "Doctors were key agents in the Holocaust. They are enormously implicated in the killing...
...expressions and amusing dialogue. Despite the risk of reducing his popularity with movie fans, Allen courageously broke with this former concept of film comedy and revived the style exemplied by the best works of Chaplin and Keaton which, at times, emphasized aesthetic considerations to the detriment of box-office success. In Manhattan Allen demonstrates his growth from entertaining performer to genuine film auteur, yet maintaining his bond with millions of movie-goers. Contrary to all expectations, current reports confirm that Manhattan is booming at the box-office throughout the country, testifying that Allen has resolved what had been considered impossible...