Word: better
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milk? "I get 750 gallons a year per cow," said Ukrainian Farmer Fedor Kozlovsky. "Not bad, but I'm doing better than that," said British Farmer Nye Bevan, who, with fellow Laborite Hugh Gaitskell, had turned up in the Soviet Union to reap some of the summer's bumper crop of Russian-grown political hay. "But you weren't overrun by Hitler," said Fedor. Said Nye: "Those were not cows that were overrun by Hitler...
...plasma studies at Harvard and M.I.T. will be largely theoretical, but highly practical hardware is likely to grow out of them. The development of fusion power depends on better understanding of high-temperature plasmas. A plasma rocket engine expelling charged particles instead of hot gases may be the solution to the problem of long-range flight. During interplanetary voyages, a spaceship will pass through lashing streams of plasmas shot out of the sun, and its designers had better understand them well in advance. If a spaceship tries to land on a planet, it will meet another plasma problem. A group...
...planned the birth of a baby boy, Buddy Palooka, for the end of October. Soon afterward, Leff meant to have Joe retire from the ring as undefeated champion, plunge into youth work and life as a family man. Only when boxing-world conditions "took a turn for the better" did Leff intend to bring Joe's younger brother Steve along as the next heavyweight champion...
...have been the air conditioners and the soft drinks-or maybe Hollywood was making better films; but movie business was never better than it was during August's humid midsummer heat. August's top ten moneymakers as reported by Variety: 1) North by Northwest (M-G-M), 2) Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia), 3) Hole in the Head (United Artists), 4) Porgy and Bess (Columbia), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) The Nun's Story (Warner), 7) The Big Circus (Allied Artists), 8) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Buena Vista), 9) Five Pennies (Paramount...
...Hollywoods are full of tall. tawny-blonde pinups who have fared better on film than Lola Jean Albright, and the jukeboxes rattle with records made by singers who sell more songs. But when Lola's latest release, Dreamsville, went out to the deejays last week, its fans were readymade. For Lola is Edie Hart, the slim, smoky-voiced saloon singer, the girl wrho keeps the fires warm for TV's Private Eye Peter Gunn, the blue-eyed sentimentalist who can whisper into the mike and convince a million televiewers that she is alone with each one of them...