Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Katahdin, Maine's tallest mountain, is just short of a mile high. During clear summer, spring and fall weekends its rockstrewn summit is always crowded. Besides offering an impressive view, Katahdin marks the starting-point of the 2000-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia...
According to Lee Tibbs, the park director, the park supervisor made the decision to send out the plane when he realized someone was climbing alone. Though Yates claims he was in full view and can't understand how the plane missed him, it did. Since there were no tracks leading down the mountain and since they couldn't spot him from the air, park authorities assumed that Yates was injured. It was then that they decided to call in the helicopter...
Fouraker summed up the B-School's point of view on teaching ethics in a column published in the last Harvard Business School Bulletin...
...deal with the ultimate horror of what America did to Vietnam. But Michael Cimino concerns himself more with what Vietnam did to America. He follows the lives of five Russian-American steelworker friends in a small Ohio valley town, while remaining largely true to actual events. This ground-level view is contrived at first--for instance, the actors are awkward and reckless with their guns, and they talk a little like displaced New Yorkers--but the emotional strength of the story wins the audience. Robert DeNiro carries the movie with the intensity of that inner distance he has copyrighted...
...Strangelove. Perhaps a timely warning in view of China's recent misbehavior, Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy about dropping the A-bomb, returns this weekend. Kubrick creates an absurd and violent society (some say something like our own), peopled by the likes of General Jack D. Ripper, who gives the bombs-away order and then seals himself off, refusing to release the recall code. Meanwhile, the Russians have cooked up a Doomsday Machine to destroy the world in case someone drops an atomic bomb in their territory. It was going to be announced later that week...