Word: unpreparedness
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ORDINARILY, the 325-man Office of Emergency Preparedness deals with damage done by such natural disasters as hurricanes and earthquakes. Last week OEP suddenly found itself handling the results of a man-made storm for which it was decidedly unprepared. Without warning, President Nixon plucked the tiny agency out of...
MEMORIES of Underdevelopment does lip service to progressive filmmaking; and there too it cops out. It includes phony pieces of self-criticism; a pseudo-reflexive section wherein Elena, wanting to become an actress, has the hero take her to ICAIC, the Cuban film institute, where he just happens to know...
Foreign producers are also unprepared for the demand. Major foreign bicycle names-notably England's Raleigh, France's Peugeot and Japan's diplomatically named American Eagle-account for one-third of the bikes sold in the U.S. Under pressure from Washington, American Eagle has been setting limits...
Many of his fans clearly do delight in the absence of jackass antics on the show. His nightly 90 minutes of generally intelligent conversation may not really be a cause for soul searching: they assume the shape of an intellectual peak partly because the rest of the TV schedule is...
The TIME cover staffers, however, could not have been considered carpetbaggers even in the old days. Rather they lived in Dixie through its years of great change. Kane grew up in Washington, D.C., while it was "still very much a Southern town," he recalls. "When my high school eventually took...