Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer-Director Lerner has 39 half-hour films to go and fears that his voice may not make the course. It has sunk to a whisper in his effort to crash the language barrier; Lerner can no longer operate on the theory that the way to make foreigners understand English is to shout it. He complains: "The trouble with these people is that you can't talk to them. You use a simple word like 'dolly' or 'Mole-Richardson boom,' and the interpreter takes five minutes telling 'em what you said." He also finds...
...Angeles, Shotputter Parry O'Brien, who cracked the 60-ft. barrier fortnight ago, broke his own record (by ½ in.) with another record heave of 60 ft. 5 3/4 in. He is now aiming at 62 ft. Another world record was set at the Coliseum relays when the Fordham University quartet of Terry Foley, Frank Tarsney, Bill Persichetty and Tom Courtney ran the two-mile relay in 7:27.3. Old (1952) record...
...trade barrier not only weakens the U. S. in the world political situation, but also injures American foreign economic policy in penalizing foreign industrial development. By keeping high duties on processed goods and none on raw materials, the United States relegates these countries to colonial status. As a result, foreign countries have little incentive to develop industrial potentials...
...Escape. "At first, confused and shocked by shameless profusion and almost shamed by generosity, unaccustomed to such importance as they are assumed, by their hosts, to possess, and up against the barrier of a common language, they write in their notebooks like demons, generalizing away, on character and culture and the American political scene. But, towards the middle of their middle-aged whisk through middle-western clubs and universities, the fury of the writing flags . . . And in their diaries, more & more do such entries appear as, 'No way of escape!' or 'Buffalo...
...Italian government has made it clear that a favorable Trieste settlement is its price for ratification of EDC. Western military planners, attempting to fix a barrier across the girth of Europe, consider Trieste vital to the defense of Italy and southern France, for it represents the only break in the formidable chain of mountains that runs from Geneva itself to the Adriatic sea. The successful defense of this gap clearly depends on the co-operation of Yugoslav and Italian forces...