Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The news quickly flashed across the world: the Air Force's 85-ft. 8,600-lb. ICBM Atlas had been fired, not in a trajectory whose end was a watery South Atlantic target but into the skies. Its tape recording of President Eisenhower's greetings heralded the beginning...
ARTILLERY BATTLE : Communist China's gunners laid down on Quemoy one of the most intense and longest-sustained artillery bombardments ever directed against a single objective. High point: the Communists fired 60,000 rounds from 300 guns on Sept. 11. The bombardment caused serious disruption on the supply beaches...
Cautious and deliberate by nature, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has a terrible temper when pressed-and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield pressed him. Unless businessmen get into politics, Republican Summerfield warned the National Association of Manufacturers fortnight ago, "candidates hand-picked by union bosses and elected by the campaign activities...
The Old Vic can perhaps thank its stars not to boast any; this Twelfth Night, as directed by Michael Benthall, gets its fine effect from its ensemble effect. Actors who know how to speak Shakespeare, to do wonders with an intonation, know also how to join hands. Desmond Heeley, with...
Died. Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, 78, longtime (1922-50) Director of Fine Arts for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute; in Miami. The son of Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and a first cousin once removed of Painter Winslow Homer, Homer Saint-Gaudens was first a journalist, next entered the theater, directed...