Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stanley Kubrick, producer-director-writer of Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," has turned the tables. Instead of enlisting the Bomb to save an inane movie, he has created a brilliant movie to save the human race from nuclear inanity. This brief, unnerving film rips windily through a whole forest of Cold war cliches, alternately rustling branches and toppling huge trunks. See-sawing giddiness and terror, "Dr. Strangelove" leaves its audiences smiling emptily. The mood suits Kubric's purpose superbly...
This revolutionary notion had been proposed by Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore. When his resolution got to the Senate floor three weeks ago, it was sidetracked almost immediately by, of all things, extraneous debate. Last week the Senate took it up again, and Pastore made a brief but impassioned speech on its behalf. No sooner was he finished than other Senators started talking on all manner and matter of other things...
...heart of the Rift Valley 100 miles northwest of Nairobi, were up in arms. They seized the armory and locked their white officers and noncoms in the officers' mess. Their triumph was short-lived. In roared British Royal Horse Artillery in Ferret armored cars, and in a brief gun battle the rising was quelled, leaving one mutineer dead and one wounded. The rest were quickly thrown behind barbed wire...
...glass looked as transparent as the standard windowpane, but scientists at the Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society were impressed by its strange qualities. On brief exposure to sunlight the glass turned grey. Back in the shade, or in ordinary artificial light, it promptly turned clear as window glass again...
...energetic young president who fed it more new ideas than anyone else. Paley introduced the Columbia Workshop, which broadcast the early works of Thornton Wilder and W. H. Auden. And as World War II began, he initiated the practice of fracturing news programs into brief reports from scattered capitals. After the war-in which he served as colonel in charge of psychological warfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower-he made one of the strongest moves in broadcasting history when he took control of programming away from advertising agencies and outside packagers. From then on, CBS has originated most...