Word: summonses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At any hour of day or night the summons may come. Then the young Nisei from California must trudge down to the waterfront in Japan and pitch in at one of the world's oddest jobs: measuring dead whales. "When the mountainous carcasses are cut up, the stench is...
All this is a partial answer to yet another puzzling question about the affair: Why did McGovern and his staff fail to check Eagleton's background more carefully? Both the candidate and his aides were busy with other things in the important period between McGovern's California primary...
McGovern immediately telephoned Daley to thank him for his "magnanimous move." With that, Daley invited the candidate to come to Chicago for a conference-an invitation that had the quality of a summons. That meeting could at least begin negotiations for a possible bargain in which Daley might guarantee his...
To give the film makers a break - which is more than they give the viewer - Prime Cut was obviously intended to be a tough, surreal gangster film in the Point Blank mold, a kind of jazzy allegory about brutality and dehumanization. Point Blank, however, had John Boorman directing Lee Marvin...
The management structure of ITT is that of a federated empire. Division chiefs are free to run their operations, so long as they can convince Geneen that they are hitting his targets of a 15% compounded growth in profits every year, or have excellent reasons why they cannot do so...