Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...information, more knowing public-affairs programs, more initiative, more ideas, more guts in radio and TV news. "Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey of the state of American education, and a week or two later the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East...
...creating a huge, cumulative casting problem, and the man who is coping with most of it is Agent Tony Rivers, Manhattan's leading Oriental flesh peddler (he inherited his business from his former boss, Kaie Deei, a part-Egyptian, part-Zulu agent, who specialized in Negroes, Orientals and American Indians). Agent Rivers is finding the white man's burden heavy. Biggest problem: Asians tend to act with rigidity and gliding formalism. To fill the part of Sammy Fong, unofficial mayor of Chinatown, Flower Drum's Casting Director Ed Blum finally had to cross the color line...
Both Suzie and Flower Drum hired the same speech expert, Professor Simon Mitchneck of Columbia, to turn Oriental inflections into speech that is understandable to American audiences. He is currently working with Japan's Miyoshi Umeki and the rest of the cast of Flower Drum, shaving vowels, changing consonants, even breaking Comedian Storch of his New Yorkese. Just about the only time Agent Rivers got off the Oriental beat this season was when Producers Feuer and Martin insisted that they would cast their new musical Whoop-Up only with full-blooded Indians. "I scoured the area," says Rivers...
There are two phases of man's navigation of space: the going out and the coming back. The Air Force's Pioneer demonstrated that the day is near at hand when a missile will soar out into free space. Last week North American Aviation, Inc. rolled out its X-15 - a stub-winged, hard-shelled rocket.plane designed to study the other end of the problem: how to get a man back safely from outer space...
...Edwards A.F.B. on the Mojave Desert, the X-15 will be introduced to air and space by easy stages. First it will probably be dropped unpowered to see how it lands. During February 1959 North American's Test Pilot Scott Crossfield will make the first powered flights, using low-powered rocket engines. Then will come tryout flights with the 50,000-lb. engine. At some point in this feeling-out process, the X-15 will be turned over to the Air Force. Then Captain Robert A. White, 34, who became the Air Force's choice as test pilot...