Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite all the improved Republican possibilities, the Democrats still held the high ground. In the Senate, simple arithmetic showed that far more Republican-held seats than Democratic were at stake in closely contested states (see box), hence the odds clearly favored an increased Democratic Senate majority. In the House, where incumbency is a decided asset, 26 Republicans had retired for health or other personal reasons, against only six Democrats; in addition, far more Republican seats were seriously challenged than Democratic. In terms of net gains in House or Senate seats, the 1958 elections could still turn...
...Silent-sentry radar set, resembling old-style box camera on a tripod, picks up movement within 800 yds. under any conditions...
...Home. The Met survived the Depression on the box-office pull of Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior. Now doing better business than ever under General Manager Rudolf Bing, the yellow brewery ranks with La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper as one of the Big Three of the operatic world. The Met is hampered by a physical plant that was antiquated in 1910 (to be abandoned in three years for the Met's new home in Lincoln Center) and by the difficulties of competing for top talent with the state-supported European houses. But in addition to its European stars...
...press-box announcer blurted: "We have a score on the Northwestern-Michigan game that seems unlikely. The report gives Northwestern 34 points in the second quarter. We are asking for confirmation." Confirmation came quickly: Michigan was taking the licking of its life...
...World of Suzie Wong (adapted by Paul Osborn from Richard Mason's novel) has a surging advance at the box office, but for the stage it is a shambling step backward. It tells of a young Hong Kong prostitute (France Nuyen) debauched at 13 by an uncle but in essence still fine and pure, and of an even finer and purer young Canadian painter (William Shatner) who, though achingly tempted, resists a loving, willing Suzie in scene after scene after scene. At last, when her baby is killed, he marries...