Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enthusiastically applauded by a dressy first -night audience, the ballet was drubbed by the critics. "No amount of balletic license," said the Financial Times, "can really excuse this parade of cliche and low comedy." But Playwright-Composer-Actor Coward had an answer: "If I wrote for the critics, I would not be so happy-or so successful...
...gumshoe race runs the auto industry. Said the report: "There are probably more than 10,000 people who know what is going to happen to forward model cars. The opportunities to pick up valuable trade secrets are enormous." The Dearborn (Mich.) Inn has received an unusually large amount of income for its top-floor rooms; the inn just happens to overlook the Ford test track in Dearborn. One automan, who confessed to the Harvard men that he had gone "too far," telephoned the top office of a competitor, got information on a new model by realistically presenting himself...
...retired in 1957 but came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of the Philco Corp. (electronics), and about the same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really out of it once they leave." Best way to avoid...
Balance or Blow. The engine is simple enough-in nuclear theory: a high-power density reactor (lots of power from a small volume) honeycombed with channels through which a large amount of hydrogen gas can be blown. The hydrogen cools the reactor, keeps it from melting or vaporizing. At the same time, the hydro gen is heated to a temperature (about 2,000°-3,000° C.) just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller...
Everyone connected with this production has brought along the necessary amount of wit. And I strongly urge you to see for yourself that Shakespeare could turn out a helluva good bedroom farce...