Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of the Sputniks is followed by the U.S. election year 1958, and the prospect of political wrangling over the responsibility for defense shortfalls has already cast its shadow over the session of Congress that begins next week. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Ready for the Brawl. One point of U.S. defense policy that deserves the most serious debate is the rising argument for some sort of U.S. general staff system in the Pentagon, an argument that has defenders of the present system warning of the dangers of a Bismarck-like Prussian general staff, the reform-minded warning of the dangers...
...program was cast in a mold of informality, with Ike and Dulles discussing the Paris sessions, but it actually showed the President of the U.S. as master of ceremonies for the Secretary of State's featured role. Ike spoke briefly at the beginning and end of the program, reading from a rough text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest...
...rule, she has inspired a surprising amount of viciously unflattering comment. A well-known French actor last week gritted: "I have never in my life hated a woman so much." A German director said: "I never think of that kleine Biest without wanting to slap her face." To the cast and crew of Une Vie, the French picture she has just finished shooting, she was openly known as "The Monster." A French director called her "one of the worst experiences of my life. In that sweet smile I see nothing but bared fangs. Inside the fairy princess is a witch...
Nevertheless, as long as Lieschen was crying in her beer, Maria was wasting her talent, and in the fall of 1953 she took thought, went to work for the most gifted moviemaker in Germany. Helmut (The Devil's General) Käutner. In The Last Bridge, cast as a woman doctor in wartime, she gave a memorably jolting performance, and in 1954, at the Cannes film festival, Maria was voted the year's best actress. Overnight she had a world reputation, and the films that followed impressively sustained...
Best Foot. In Kansas City, Kans., Tommy Hess, 3, warned of pain by the doctor preparing to put a plaster cast on his broken foot, gingerly extended his leg, never whimpered during the 40-minute operation, only explained when the impressed doctor praised him, "It's the other foot that hurts...