Word: technician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Classic Soof. For further evidence that plot progression is not essential for TV, the McLuhanites cite the classic goof on CBS in 1965. The network was running a Hollywood movie, The Notorious Landlady. Inadvertently, a technician played two of the three reels out of sequence. Twenty-one million people watched the show, but the network got only a peep of protest...
...engineering trade magazines he could find. To get some on-the-job training, he took a laborer's job at night at a caustic-soda plant being constructed by Chemico of New York. There, by his own recollection, he picked the brains of every American technician he could find. It was, he says, a "live opportunity...
Somewhat Sanguine. This was hardly enough for California Activist Pat Maginnis, 39, a medical technician who has had three abortions herself. Uninvited to the conference, she led pickets outside the Hilton Hotel and gave public lectures on self-abortion. It was her startling opinion that no law held the woman responsible for ridding herself of an unwanted child. Therefore, she argued, the police can take no action "even if you take your fetus into the police station and tell them you just did your own abortion...
Three young Belgians who strayed into the eastern Congo recently while studying African tribal life were summarily executed only hours after their arrest by Congolese troops. A Belgian mining technician and his wife were murdered a few days later. Belgian officials barely bothered to protest. With more than 20 whites killed by Congolese soldiers since the mercenary rebellion began, Brussels has just about lost all confidence in the ability or will of Mobutu and his government to protect whites. "Sometimes," sighed a white resident of the Katanga provincial capital of Lubumbashi last week, "we feel as though this...
Similarly wide-ranging is the Opportunities Industrialization Center program launched by the Rev. Leon Sullivan three years ago in a converted Philadelphia jail. Some 3,000 Negroes have already been trained in Philadelphia alone, for jobs ranging from cook to electronics technician, and now 65 U.S. cities from New Haven, Conn., to Los Angeles are setting up similar centers...