Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department from the presidency of the Esso Research and Engineering Co., research subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Since 1930 he has directed research and development programs. Before that he was a chemical engineer, small-town schoolteacher and all-Southern football tackle at the University of Kentucky. His background provided exactly what Wilson was looking for in his missiles chief: high technological skill, proven administrative ability, a talent for getting along with people, experience in a big organization...
...calm, low key persuasiveness should help him at the Pentagon, but Wilson points to something else in Murphree's background as an equal asset: a quarter-century of effective service in the vast Standard hierarchy. Such a man, Wilson reasons, should not "get frustrated too quick in this big place." Then, with characteristic Wilson candor, the Defense Secretary made Murphree's position of authority clear. "I think if he gets into a jam between the services," Wilson said, "I will be in it with...
...action takes place among massive stone arches, against a brooding Verona-like background-actually the hills of the Crimea, near Yalta. To the tune of Prokofiev's rather overexalted music, and the gentle narration of a voice in English, the plot thickens speedily; servants of the feuding Montagues and Capulets meet and taunt one another into a brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova...
...Background becomes foreground when the two men share a recuperative leave on the French Riviera. Sam Loggins meets and falls in love with Monique, a raven-haired American beauty who has been brought up in France. With knowing French jokes and urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter...
...Explain (Jeri Southern; Decca). One event in the he-she cycle that is very rarely explored in pop tunes: the philanderer's return. Songstress Jeri Southern gives it a fairly heart-wrenching onceover in a plain but expressive voice, while in the background a baritone sax cries hoarsely...