Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro was moved to action by the slump in the tourist trade and the angry demands of 2,000 card dealers, croupiers, cashiers, musicians, barmen, waiters and entertainers, all thrown out of work by the revolution. Senorita Pastora NúÑez, director of National Savings and Housing Institute (formerly the government lottery), called in the casino owners and found them willing to meet her requirement of seven weeks' back pay for all employees. "I highly disapprove of the way you make a living," she lectured, "but we are reconsidering our earlier decision...
...arresting mixture of black and white ancestry, of Harlem harshness and the West Indian languor, of Broadway jazz caves, Greenwich Village hash houses, efficient modern recording studios. Throughout he has clung to a certain tough quality that can flash out as easily as his boyish smile. Recently TV Director Don Medford tried to define the key to Belafonte's dramatic magnetism: "Behind him is this hard core of hostility. Like Brando, Jimmy Dean, Rod Steiger, he's loaded with it." The quality lends a demon drive to Belafonte's career and immense conviction to his work...
...Ferrer and Inger Stevens as one of the three survivors of an earth-shattering atomic disaster (the script is based roughly on a prophetic 1902 novel entitled The Purple Cloud). By all reports, despite a clumsy story it is Belafonte's best acting job to date. Writer-Director Ranald MacDougall was surprised by Belafonte's chameleon ability to take on the emotional coloration of almost any scene he was playing. At one point Belafonte was required to go into a wrecked church, sit down in a pew and cry. "I didn't give him any direction...
...Glennan, head of the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which took the program over from the Navy. Every detail of the launching vehicle was examined critically, but whether major changes were made is not clear. There were few changes of personnel. Long-suffering Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard program from its beginning, remained in charge. When he reported to the House space committee on the day after the launching, a Congressman remarked: "You look about ten years younger...
...cost of this program, said NASA Director Glennan, will be $485.3 million, and he warned Congress that future bills would be higher. "The cost of our space programs," he said, "will increase year by year. We expect that satellites will be widely used in meteorology-witness the Vanguard II cloud cover experiment-and in worldwide communications. The value of such advances will be counted in the billions of dollars...