Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special appeal of Sea Hunt lies in its power to float its fans right through their TV screens into the unearthly realm where its churning action chiefly occurs. Hungarian-born, Hollywood-based Producer Tors has roved from the Marshall Islands to the Caribbean in his own hunt for sunny weather, clear water, exotic fauna and flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand...
...doubts about Sea Hunt's wide appeal are now being dispelled by the Soviet Union. Ziv, biggest U.S. film syndicator, last April turned over 13 installments to the U.S.S.R. in the first swap of TV films under the new U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange program. At the moment. Sea Hunt is being dubbed in Russian. Soon Mike Nelson will be captivating the U.S.S.R.'s adventure lovers as he peers fearlessly through his mask, gurgles defiance, draws his knife...
...word being touched, the conservative Paris daily L'Aurore cried in boldface headlines: LET THE ELYSEE PALACE DESIGNATE DE GAULLE, and the Communist daily L'Humanité ran a frontpage cartoon of De Gaulle holding the dead body of Marianne, symbol of the French nation, with the appeal: "Bar the Route Against Military Dictatorship." Explained one censor: "De Gaulle's name is too much of a national symbol to tamper with." Translated from the French, that seemed to mean that the falling government, fearful of appearing either to embrace or offend the incoming Premier, found De Gaulle...
...funds appeal to small investors because they provide great diversity and professional management. But the fund buyer pays commissions of up to 8%. How do the professional managers fare? With the rising market of the last ten years, nearly all the funds show impressive gains. But few outperform the market. The big funds have not increased in value as fast as blue chips. "Sure," says Joseph E. Welch, executive vice president of the $651 million Wellington Fund. "With the benefit of hindsight, an investor might have done better to put his money into some of the blue chips...
...good taste. In fact, I strongly suspect that hardly anyone has ever seen love and sex handled so suavely in real life. Moreover, all four of the film's female leads live up to both Sweden's and Brigitte Bardot's reputations for young womanhood; this may explain the appeal of Sweden to nearly anyone who sees the film...