Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers are convincingly unactorish, and the camera watches them well, making dramatic use of focus shifts (the credits list a focus technician as well as a cameraman and a photography director). At 28, British Director Peter Collinson (The Penthouse and Up the Junction), who doubled as co-producer of The Long Day's Dying, has the technical skills of moviemaking well in hand. Time now to concentrate on the intangibles. Like taste...
While published polls get all the attention (giving the pollsters entree to far more lucrative market research), private pollsters work for candidates much as augurs labored for Caesar. No longer sure of his personal instincts, the modern politician has upgraded the pollster from the rank of technician to that of campaign tactician. Says a leading pollster, Joseph A. Napolitan: "Polls never won an election, but you can win an election with what you do with your polls...
...Saturday evening, and in a van parked behind the barns at Chur chill Downs, Laboratory Technician James Chinn performed his postrace chore of testing urine specimens from 18 horses - the winners of all nine races run at the Louisville track that day, plus one other horse from each race, chosen by lot. When he added his test chemicals to the tubes, one specimen turned blue and then orange - the sign that some offending drug was present...
Watson has also been faulted for the deterioration of Democratic organizations around the country. Yet some of the criticism has doubtless been unfair. He has never been a policymaker and, despite his experience as Texas Democratic chairman, never was a political technician of national stature. He functioned strictly as an operations officer who followed his chief's orders with uncritical zeal. Traditionally, a Postmaster General devotes much of his time to high-level politicking. With Johnson out of the race, however, General Watson may be able to give full attention to improving the postal service. It will also give...
Washington was criticized later for this performance, but it is clearly in character for him. He is not a politician but a bureaucrat and technician. He was not elected to office but appointed. As a result he has not been forced to keep in touch with the people of the black ghetto, and he has not kept in touch with them. They have never fully trusted him, and after the King Weekend, they will trust him even less...