Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straight Hollywood foreign intrigue: the night scene at Lisbon airport, passengers to Rio de Janeiro fretting at Flight 289's unexplained two-hour delay. A black Mercedes-Benz slips onto the runway. A man scuttles out, clambers into the airliner. Forty-five minutes later, 20 plainclothes policemen dissolve into the darkness, and the great silver plane roars off into the Atlantic midnight...
...Fonteyn-Dame Commander of the British Empire,* star of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, top ballerina of the Western world-cast a large, limpid brown eye through her camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-was happily...
...Barely Black. Newsprint, which can account for 50% of a paper's budget, has soared from $41 a ton in 1933 to $135. The Linotype machine that sold for $8,000 twenty years ago costs $20,000 today. Technological gains in efficiency are largely neutralized by the fact that powerful shop unions prevent management from cutting payrolls, even though only half as many men may actually be needed to tend the new equipment. Union "make-work" practices such as "bogus"-the needless resetting of ads originally received in mat or plate form-waste millions of dollars a year...
Even dailies of medium circulation, least pinched by the cost-income claw, are finding it increasingly tough to stay in the black ink. In a study of a "typical" daily of 50,000 circulation. Editor & Publisher found revenue up 25.61% in the last decade, costs up 39.57%-and net profit down 58.24% (see chart...
...most moving effects in the series of soaring Act II lifts and in the last-act duet in which she hovered back to consciousness on feet as tremulous as a butterfly's wing. And where Plisetskaya had omitted the famous 32 fouettés (snapped turns) in the "Black Swan Pas de Deux," Timofeyeva whipped them off with a bravura that brought the house alive with a roar...