Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets appear eager for better relations, and the prospects for a slowdown in the arms race look better than they have in years. Last week, in what may be the beginning of a worldwide drawdown, the President announced that 14,900 troops will be brought home from various stations abroad...
...better third-level carriers, including some of the scheduled services that the FAA calls "commuter air carriers," demand airline-style experience of their pilots-but most do not. At the bottom are the unscheduled "air taxis," many of which are Mom and Pop outfits that hire out for various chores and use smaller and less well-equipped planes than the commuters...
...True Grit are absent in The Wild Bunch since, unlike the Hathaway film, Sam Peckinpah has directed half to three-quarters of this epic in close-shot. The major exception to this rule of composition comes in the slow-motion orgies of violence which punctuate the film at various crucial points...
...LARGE, last Thursday's McGovern Commission hearings in Boston were a New Politics show. Innumerable representatives of various organizations of former McCarthy and Kennedy supporters gathered before the Democratic Party commission to propose what they felt were changes in the operation of the party and of the American electoral system...
...failed and that drastic changes were needed to enable the political system to cope with current crises. The political ethic underlying the specific changes proposed runs roughly like this: The political system should seek to deal directly with the issues of the time, instead of being a battleground for various faction. "Participation" in the political system by all the people is essential, for it assures that the system will operate in the above fashion...