Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...USCHR's conception of team-ball is wrong. Our responsibility is to our constituents, not to UCSHR," Low said. He added that UCSHR's position will not be weakened, but that "working from within" would give them a stronger tactical position...
...Envoy Roy Atherton. White House officials had been careful not to encourage hopes of success. On the flight to Cairo, a senior presidential aide stressed that Carter was "not particularly" optimistic and was "well aware of the fact that it is much easier for things to go wrong than to go right." This caution seemed warranted, for even before the Americans had landed, Egyptian Premier Moustafa Khalil had announced that his Cabinet had not accepted all the U.S. compromise proposals. Said Khalil: "There will be a few changes...
...owned the joint . . . asked me how old I was, and I told him twenty, and he looked at me and said, 'Your mama know where you are?' " The irrepressible octogenarian Alberta Hunter, who got her start as a singer in Chicago "sporting houses," once got on the wrong side of Ethel Waters: "I guess I outsang her, because she put everything but the kitchen stove...
...nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles where Lemmon is the control-room supervisor. While getting the standard tour from the plant's public relations man, buzzers ring, bells clang, the control panel lights up like a Christmas tree gone berserk, and the building shakes. Clearly, something is wrong...
...because of his heroic act that ends the film. Both Fonda and Lemmon say that the point of the film is that ordinary people, who fear for their jobs, who normally don't give much thought to politics, are capable of extraordinary action when they see something terribly wrong. As Lemmon said of his character, "No Caesar he--he was the average man, who behaved instinctively and morally unto himself when the circumstances demanded it, but he didn't plan...