Word: transforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maladies. Last spring, Wellman succeeded the ousted Bart Lytton as president and chief executive officer of California's Lytton Financial Corp., a huge but ailing holding company with total assets of $682 million. Now Wellman is involved in conducting his most intricate operation yet, which, if successful, will transform three weak S&Ls into one thriving $1 billion enterprise...
...HAVEN, CONN.--A traditional tone of modesty clouds pregame prognostications from most varsity football coaches. Heaping praise upon their opponents, while deprecating their own talent, they transform glaring mismatches into Super Bowl contests...
...more sophisticated black Christianity, it was argued, would transform the Negro's religion, which since slavery days has been based on the hope of salvation in the hereafter, into a faith more relevant to his present social and economic concerns. This ideal was supported by Ron Karenga, Los Angeles leader of the black nationalist US, who accused churches of foisting "spookism" on his soul brothers. "Spookism," he explained acidly, "means believing you're going to fly away without the necessary means of transportation...
...another sector of Nixon's politico-cybernetic system, still more machines type automatically "personalized" letters composed by dialing a selection from some 70 paragraphs by Nixon. Robot typewriters transform coded commands from a tape into letters that answer questions raised by concerned citizens. To a voter worried about the cities, for example, the robots write: "Of the many challenges facing America today, none seem more critical than solving the crisis that faces our cities and urban areas." The letters are mailed to voters who have given the candidate a tape-recorded three-minute piece of their mind...
INEVITABLY Kesey came in conflict with the society he was trying to transform or freak out. He was busted for possession of marijuana and fled to Mexico. There he played at Outlaw for a while. Eventually he came back to the States, freaking out the California cops by appearing at public functions, even being interviewed on T.V., and then evaporating like the Scarlet Pimpernel...