Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cocktail-party diplomacy was not the bouncing Russian strongman's only propaganda weapon last week (see box). Two days later Nikita Khrushchev laid about him again in an interview (conducted without the aid of interpreters) with the U.P.'s veteran Moscow Correspondent
...little (pop. 600) town of Shippingport, Pa. this week, a man in a white protective suit will step alone into the spotless puzzle box of the world's most powerful atomic reactor. After he shuts twelve one-ton doors and gives the final signal, giant control rods will lift slowly out of the uranium reactor core to start a sustained chain reaction. At the moment the reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years...
Kiss Them for Me (20th Century-Fox). Frederic Wakeman's Shore Leave, a novel about World War II that was published 13 years ago, told the public some home truths about how civilians were living while servicemen were dying -good reading but bad box office at the time. Now that the issue is safely dead, this movie stages a mighty flashy funeral...
...thousand one-night stands and red-lit neon holes from San Diego to Baltimore. In a Beat as Big as a bass-fiddle, tight-drum Hot America. In the dull roar and muted chant of the Juke Box Generation. We shall survive--and prosper. Man, you heard it here...
...weighed in at 117¼ Ibs., but he worked like a heavyweight, swung looping haymakers, careless of where they landed, confident that they hurt. Macias (118 Ibs.) had little chance to use his shifty speed. When he had his man worn down, Alphonse stepped back and began to box. Even the pro-Macias Mexicans in the crowd of 20,000 fell into silent acquiescence when the officials gave Halimi the decision that made him bantamweight champion of the world...