Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...President. He is surrounded by yes men who try to find out what the boss wants and give it to him. They don't protect him sufficiently from daily follies and lapses of judgment and temper. There is also a tendency for some political people to try to screen the President from the outside world, and defend him no matter what. It's no different in any administration...
Jones was inspired to invent his tester by highway statistics, which show that half of the drivers involved in fatal accidents have alcohol in their blood. But the device−which is designed to screen drunks by testing judgment, visual acuity, short-term memory and coordinated motor response−will also weed out drug users and those who are mentally or physically deficient. To satisfy the demanding gadget, a driver must be able to read the relatively small lighted numbers, memorize them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds...
...cinematic pyrotechnics. His Hell in the Pacific was a stunningly filmed but intellectually shallow allegory about man's inhumanity to man. His new film, Leo the Last, appears to have been made with a greater degree of directorial freedom than he has ever had; he even shares screen credit for the script. The result is a stunning but simplistic political parable that might have benefited from the literary intervention of a wiser head...
...cargo at Hong Ngu. The Vietnamese were greeted by a white-shirted bureaucrat who shouted instructions over a bullhorn. There were tables stacked with forms to fill out and, near by, a tent city to shelter the refugees for the two weeks or so that will be needed to screen and begin relocating them...
Died. Billie Burke, 85, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, herself a renowned stage and screen star; in Los Angeles. Red-haired and blue-eyed, she reigned as a Broadway beauty through the early 1900s, drawing homage from Mark Twain and Enrico Caruso before capturing Flo Ziegfeld as her husband. Her fame came from her skill as a comedienne in the years after 1930, when she appeared as a flibbertigibbet in scores of plays (Her Master's Voice, Mrs. January and Mr. X) and movies (Topper, The Wizard of Oz, Hi Diddle Diddle). "Oh," she once wrote, "that sad and bewildering...