Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embittered leftist workers. But apart from a brief, lively election-night march by a few dozen center-right celebrators, observers on the Champs-Elysées noted only the formation of a patient queue, intent upon nothing more momentous than buying tickets to Rencontres du Troisième Type (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) at a movie house. The morning after the elections, when, according to some dark prophecies, plans for crippling mass strikes would be hatched, the French quietly went back to work. Indeed, leaders of France's major trade unions, including the Communist-dominated C.G.T. (General...
With only a couple more birthdays between me and 50, I find little cause for rejoicing in your assurance that it is now all right to be 30. Neither am I consoled to learn that my type of beauty ("narrow shoulders, small breasts, large belly . . .") went out in the 14th century...
...such Soviet military activities do not stop, Carter suggested, the U.S. public may turn against detente, endangering any type of cooperation between the two superpowers. Citing a ''massive" buildup in Soviet conventional forces, which could be used "for political blackmail and could threaten our vital interests," the President vowed: "We will match, together with our allies and friends, any threatening power through a combination of military forces, political efforts and economic programs. We will not allow any other nation to gain military superiority over...
...over to an angle where the DSRV can't latch onto that hatch. The screen writers must resort to their imaginations, concocting an experimental two-man sub that can clear the hatch so that the DSRV can do its job. Its inventor is not a standard-issue Navy type and, pleasantly played by David Carradine, he gets into some comical wrangles with Stacy Keach, who plays the officer in charge of the rescue. Down below, of course, Charlton Heston practices his customary agreeable stalwartness as the captain of the disintegrating sub. In the end, Carradine and Keach bring their...
Later this year ABC and NBC will introduce their own versions of the magazine format, which is basically an hour-long collection of documentary-type reports. In addition, Producer David Susskind is developing a personality-profile TV show for CBS based on PEOPLE magazine, and stations across the nation are pasting together local variations of the magazine genre. At this rate television may soon offer more "magazines" than the corner newsstand...