Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters anywhere cover more ground than TIME'S Australian correspondent, Fred B. Hubbard, 39, who newspapered in Chicago before moving to Brisbane twelve years ago. Hubbard's beat embraces 2,948,366 sq. mi., some of them so untamed that when a story takes him to Australia's Northern Territory, he sets foot on barren plains where aborigines still hunt wallabies. He has reported on the diet of platypuses, the music of the bushmen, and kuru, the strange back-country ailment in which the afflicted literally laugh themselves to death. Last week, just returned from an assignment...
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...newscasts arose because of the Federal Communications Commission's overly cautious interpretation of the Communications Act, which declares that any station that lets any legally qualified candidate use its air time must give equal opportunities to competing candidates. Until last February, this provision was interpreted to cover political campaigning. Then a perennial also-ran in Chicago named Lar Daly (TIME, March 30) claimed that it also governed straight newscasts, charged that WBBM-TV had violated the act by not giving him equal time after showing film clips on a newscast of two of his opponents, including Mayor Richard...
Nothing could look less like stripped-down Bauhaus architecture than Gropius' exuberant plans for Baghdad. The university, divided into colleges, is gathered in clusters of air-conditioned buildings, set close together to provide shade in the blistering 120° summer heat. Concrete shells will cover the combined theater auditorium and mosque. Water from the nearby Tigris will splash in garden courts...
Events move swiftly and suddenly in this play, almost as fast as those of Macbeth. Over and above this, much can be done to cover up the structural shortcomings by maintaining a rapid and unbroken flow. Much has been done in this regard in the current Stratford production, under the direction of Jack Landau. Landau has wisely allowed only one intermission. And, using a somewhat trimmed text, he has on occasion overlapped the scenes; for instance, the Capulets' ball gets under way before Romeo and his pals on the street outside have finished their say. The resulting production...