Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Oppenheimer's early background is hardly spotless, his subsequent leadership and loyalty in developing the atomic bomb--attested by scientist after scientist at the hearings--should outweigh any actions or associations that may conflict with rigid requirements of "national security...
Give an American a vague generalization like "longterm foreign aid" and he mistrusts it. Give him a daring development project that can be accomplished only by installment payments, and he sees the point. Last week, in a not-for-attribution background press briefing, a "high Government source" finally got down to cases in the Administration's long-bobbled plea to Congress for authority to make long-term foreign-aid commitments (TIME...
Patterson's story, says Sportswriter Paul O'Neil, "illustrates the fact that professional boxing, for all its seamy background . . . and its pitiful human flotsam, can be a power for good in shaping the character of young males...
CinemaScope 55. A much improved CinemaScope was demonstrated by soth Century-Fox Film Corp. The film is first shot on a 55-mm. negative, then reduced to the standard 35-mm. size used by conventional projectors. The scale-down reduces the grainy effect of the pictures, puts the background almost as clearly in focus as the foreground. Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck claims that "we have eliminated the bothersome fall-off in focus on the sides of the screen, and totally eliminated distortion...
...room, the reporter went to the phone and told his city desk where he was-just in case. Pino looked hurt. "Joe," he admonished, "you should know you didn't have to do that." When writing his book, Dinneen wanted to use Pino's history as the background of the main character, Tony Turchino, but feared libel. Pino obligingly gave him a written release...