Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accepted the diplomatic credentials of incoming British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia (see box...
...electronics equipment now in ships and planes and many of the Navy's newest weapons would be impossible." Miniaturized computers, radar sets, fire-control mechanisms and radios are the heart of every U.S. jet bomber and fighter. Today's war planes are controlled by little black boxes so compact that to service a unit, Air Force mechanics simply remove the box, install...
...Night, has withstood the ravages of time better than most. In its first release, the Samuel Hopkins Adams story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a jobless reporter (Clark Gable) who follows her movements with somewhat more than professional attention, was a sensation-and not only at the box office. It set a style of furiously farcical social satire that, during the rest of the decade, relieved the general depression with some of the wackiest, wittiest comedies (Nothing Sacred, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) that Hollywood has ever made...
...first man to speak was Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Gripping the edge of the dispatch box, Gaitskell strove desperately for statesmanlike caution. "I think," said he, "it would be unwise if we were to plunge into any lengthy discussion . . ." He realized that his words must start one of the biggest battles in parliamentary history. Then, unable to contain himself, Gaitskell burst out: "But I must ask the Prime Minister under what authority and with what right he believes British and French forces are justified in armed intervention in this matter, before there has been any pronouncement by the United Nations...
...interests charge that the M-G-M movies made during the tenure of MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary, which dates from 1948, have lost an estimated $25 million. (Schary claims that he went in the red only two years.) The dissidents note that MGM's successful box-office movies, such as The Blackboard Jungle and Trial, have been outnumbered by the flops-The Prodigal, Jupiter's Darling, The Swan, Somebody Up There Likes...