Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retracing of Balboa's route, Operation Gold Road last week was proving much tougher going than the Spaniards found it. The conquistadors followed the trails of the then more numerous Indians, used Indian guides and bearers, rarely wore their heavy steel cuirasses. McDonald's men, by contrast, lugged 75-lb. packs and had to cut their their own way through the jungle with machetes. But the 1955 expedition was safer; radios could quickly summon help in the form of rescue helicopters. In an emergency, the roar of a whirly-bird's engine might well sound more beautiful...
...called on to do more than say a few lines or leer a bit at his young escort. He does the latter admirably, but without suggesting the talents as a comedian which he has shown in most of his earlier pictures. However, Odile Versois, the salesgirl, is an engaging contrast to Guinness' somber tweeds. As a sort of personification of the infinite possibilities offered by Paris in April, she burbles and bubbles over with joie de vivre. Next to her, even the sleek and well-tailored older woman of Elina Labourdette seems a bit lifeless, while Vernon Gray...
This alone could be the caption for the pictures. As a deep contrast, Mr. Strock's photograph of Central Park, void of lights and people, appears ethereal and peaceful...
Right Levers. By contrast, Democrat Richard Daley, 52, talked like a stockyard lad who made good (which he is) and looked like a model for the modern machine politician (which he also is). He had the support of Adlai Stevenson, Senator Paul Douglas and Hearst's Chicago American. Every day, after breakfast with his wife and children, he went campaigning with a baby-blue Cadillac and great dignity ("as a good father, good neighbor and good citizen"). That was good enough. On election day Democrat Daley won by 126,667 votes (out of 1,342,993 cast), the machine...
...Georgia's Macon County (pop. 65% Negro), the contrast between the unchanged Old South and the ever-changing New South is evident everywhere. Negro men and women study at famed Tuskegee Institute not far from where a few practitioners of voodoo still do a lively business. Last week Tuskegee Institute presented a scene that was unknown in the Old South and is still unfamiliar in the new. Four hundred Negro and white doctors from all over the U.S. met on the campus for the 43rd annual meeting of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society.* Ignoring segregation, they lived...