Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corporation, said yesterday network television's news shows are "the most closed, systematically exclusionary" media in America because they "rigidly apply" a censorship process to the points of view they present...
Back in the early 70's, the American Shipbuilding Company, Steinbrenner's vocation, had some problems with the government. A longtime contributor to the Democratic Party, Steinbrenner knew about political finance, so when Herbert Kalmbach asked for a little help for his boss, the meaning was clear. So Steinbrenner generously opened his wallet for Richard Nixon in 1972. Illegally. And he got caught...
...companies' systems are incompatible: RCA discs cannot be played on Magnavox machines and vice versa. Concedes RCA Executive Vice President Herbert Schlosser: "Eventually one system will dominate." Magnavox uses smooth-surfaced plastic discs. To see a film, one places the disc on the machine's phonograph-like turntable; a laser beam picks up the sound and images, which are then played through the attached TV set. Some Magnavox discs play for 30 min. a side, but movies take 60 min. RCA's discs, which will all play for 60 min., are grooved like records, and a stylus...
...plays the title role in Julius Caesar. Gray shows the fatuousness and vanity of the man, as well as his greatness. His Caesar could as easily be the chairman of some conglomerate as dictator of the Roman world. When the Ides of March finally arrive for him, Director Herbert Wise has the conspirators slowly circle around him, like snarling dogs around a tired stag. It is a shockingly intense scene and, as he is struck by Brutus, his favorite, Caesar clutches and almost kisses him, uttering a scarcely audible "Et tu, Brute...
...Herbert Meredith Orrell Albuquerque...