Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funniest pictures to reach U.S. screens in years-although the humor is not deliberate. A sort of Homeric Tarzan, heavy on sex and mixed-up mythology, Hercules is also the biggest surprise box-office smash in Hollywood's memory. Starring a onetime (1947) Mr. America named Steve Reeves, Hercules drew $900,000 in its first week when it opened in 145 neighborhood houses last month. This week, with a total of 600 Eastmancolor prints ready to go (largest order Pathe Labs has ever had), Hercules promises to fill 135 houses in New York City alone. By mid-August...
...Public Health Service reported last week some disturbing byproducts of the Atomic Age. For a year its experts studied the Animas River in Colorado and New Mexico, whose water is used for the homes of 30,000 people. Below the Durango, Colo. uranium refinery of the Vanadium Corp. of America, the water was loaded with radium from the plant's wastes. Some samples were 160% above the maximum level officially considered safe for health. Vanadium Corp. has agreed to do something at once...
...fastest-rising educator in the U.S. public-school system is a 39-year-old suburban schoolmaster who has made his career by energetically corseting the careless middle-class spread of the community-controlled school. "Too often," says Dr. George Brain, "we in America seem to mean that an equal education should be an identical education...
...public school system. Early this year he traveled through Western Europe with a State Department-sponsored educational leaders' seminar. Says George Brain: "European and American education seem to be moving closer together in purpose and objectives. Europe is broadening the opportunity for education to more and more children. America, which has had a quantity system, now aims more at quality...
...frostbite race, Shields was beached from competition by his doctors. Yet last summer he stubbornly took the tiller of the 12-meter Columbia and, under tremendous pressure, skippered her at the start of light races in the final trials that led to her successful defense of the America's Cup with his old friend and onetime rival, Briggs Cunningham, at the helm...