Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pursuing this social realism angle, Miss Clarke throws out little cliches of social criticism. Duke's mother gives a self-conscious declamation against government indifference, a busload of Harlem schoolboys is shown touring Wall Street, a college boy comes home unable to understand his junkie brother...
...original novel, by Morton Thompson, is 948 pages, too long for even Anhalt to memorize. Instead, he read the book three or four times, then ripped off the binding; "I would take those pages which gave me a jazz-for any reason-and tack them up on the wall. I ended up with perhaps 100 pages which excited me. Then I would thread my continuity between that excitement, frequently changing the general moral tone of the book, or its purpose, to fit that excitement...
...their own particular visible universality and are therefore democratic. It is true that during the war Tarzan left to fight Hitler, the Phantom was mobilized to fight the Japanese, and Mandrake engaged in counterespionage. It is true that Goebbels, when he found out that Superman had destroyed the Atlantic Wall with one of his krypto-rays, wrote: This Superman is a Jew!' " But Toti concludes on a properly proletarian note: "The great majority of the comics are in the hands of the monopolistic culture industry and are an integral part of a great machinery of profits...
...Congress as the first chartered U.S. company in more than a century, and its stockholders range from the giant communications companies, which own 50%, to little investors all over the U.S. It has been watched with proprietary sternness by legislators and the White House, poked and prodded by Wall Street and followed with intense interest by millions of Americans. This week all eyes are on Comsat as it attempts to launch its first communications satellite, called Early Bird, from Cape Kennedy. If the shot is successful, Early Bird will soon provide the world's first regular commercial communications...
Target 1967. The complex and sensitive job of getting Comsat off the ground belongs to two men: Chairman Leo D. Welch and President Joseph V. Charyk. Welch, 66, a former chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is concentrating on Comsat's finances, running interference on Wall Street and with the communications industry. Canadian-born Charyk, 44, an aeronautics expert and former Under Secretary of the Air Force, oversees the company's technical operations. No other corporate officers have ever been handed so many varied problems so fast. They have had to handle the housekeeping chores of starting...