Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuclear Future (Criterion Books; $3.50). Coauthor: Albert L. Latter, theoretical physicist on the staff of Santa Monica's Rand Corp...
...Curtis and South Dakota's Karl Mundt had been leading the committee thorough the bitter history of the U.A.W.'s, fruitless four-year, $10 million strike against Wisconsin's Kohler Co. (TIME, March 17), second largest U.S. plumbing-fixture manufacturer (No. 1; American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. , The three Republicans had long since decided the U.A.W. was at fault to their surprise. Walter Reuther was willing to agree halfway. Mass picketing for 54 days outside the Kohler firm, said Reuther, was wrong. Attacks on nonstrikers were wrong. Attacks on the homes of nonstrikers were wrong. Said Reuther...
Fewer than 20,000 fans crowded into the Chicago Stadium, but nearly 400,000 watched the fight in 38 states and four Canadian provinces. Piped to 174 separate audiences by Manhattan's TelePrompTer Corp., the fight was boxing's biggest closed-circuit theater-TV presentation. Often fuzzy and unfocused, the large-screen picture even lit up some regular boxing arenas with the flicker of new-style programs to come. In Texas, and in upstate New York, where Basilio is a popular local hero, enterprising matchmakers put on live preliminaries before they dimmed the house lights, hooked up projectors...
Died. Don Hartman, 57, independent film producer (Desire Under the Elms), onetime (1951-56) production chief at Paramount Pictures Corp.; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
South Pacific (Magna Releasing Corp. and 20th Century-Fox), as a Broadway musical, had so much vim and vinegar that it would be almost impossible to make a bad movie out of it-but the moviemakers appear to have tried...