Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ball passed over the world's continents and oceans one day last week. As it circled the globe for the first time, traveling at 18.000 m.p.h., the U.S. was blissfully unaware that a new era in history had begun, opening a bright new chapter in mankind's conquest of the natural environment and a grim new chapter in the cold...
Dreams into Reality. In the nation's reaction to those chilling beeps the impulse to applaud a mighty scientific achievement soon froze in the rigors of the cold war. The Red satellite was a milestone in history, a giant step toward the conquest of interplanetary space. But it was also a Communist achievement with serious implications for the West that the Communists themselves made clear. Cold-war propaganda rang in the Russian announcement: "The present generation will witness how the freed and conscious labor of the people of the new socialist society turns even the most daring...
...desires by my own ability. I feel I am safe. I can defend myself. I am not afraid. This is the greatest happiness a man can feel-that he could be a partner with the Lord in creation. This is the real happiness of man-creative life, conquest of nature, and a great purpose...
...authentic, and indoors or out, the color camera work (directed by Leo Tover) catches the blues of Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris, the gold of Goya in Spain's sunny streets. Against these backgrounds, the essence of Sun is played out. The difficult role of Brett's ultimate conquest, young Bullfighter Pedro Romero, is played with fierce intensity by handsome newcomer Robert Evans. In the movie's arena sequence, Actor Evans conveys Hemingway's paradoxical feeling of affection for what he kills ("The bulls are my best friends"), just as Brett always momentarily loves...
...German V-2 rocket, the Nürnberg trials, the love story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Don Whitehead's version of the FBI story. Globetrotter Lowell Thomas brings seven color adventure films back from New Guinea, Nepal, the Arctic, South Seas and Yucatan: and Conquest will showcase "breakthroughs" in science. After six years on TV, Lucy and Desi are taking refuge in five hour-long musical comedies, and Studio One begins its ninth year with a report on Orson Welles's 1938 Martian "invasion," with Ed Murrow narrating. Murrow...