Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sterling Hayden, a country-boy from Boone County, Kentucky, is ridden with city dirt. He doesn't care much for the ladies (principally Jean Hagen) but admits a weakness for horses. "Math luck's just gotta change," he observes, but one fears that it never does. As farm boy turned gangster, Hayden is supposed to give a new slant to the gun-slinging mobster--victim of environment, sentimental, lovable. Impossible lines and Hayden's mouthing of them preclude a convincing portrayal...
...collection for the library. (He is an ardent fan of musicals). As for possible college expansion, he notes that the library is now at a comfortable level. "Of course, there were 1,000 more students in the college when Lamont opened," he says, "and I suppose we could take care of more now. However," McNiff warns, "Lamont is used as much today as it was in 1949 when we had the greater number of students...
Harris suggested that greater care be taken "not to hurt further depressed industries and labor surplus areas" and that federal funds be made available on a loan basis at rates below cost to stimulate industry in such regions...
...territory is ground-based antiaircraft weapons and surface-to-surface missiles of anything except extreme range. Army doctrine is that missiles are fine things, but they must be rugged, transportable, and easily concealed. Most important of all, they must be "G.I.-proof"; they will be under the care of plain soldiers, who will drop them, kick them, neglect them, spill ketchup on them. If made like laboratory instruments, they will not perform on the battlefield worth a G.I. damn...
Helen of Troy (Warner). "Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, wrote Thomas Hey wood, "who, living, had no roof to shroud his head." Two other cities, Rome and Hollywood, which care more about the poet's capacity to turn a profit than a phrase, have recently made an uneasy truce before the walls of Troystrictly, of course, for the sake of plunder...