Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's grim determination to get a balanced budget has resulted in the most serious split in his official family in the six years of his administration. Aligned with the President: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Budget Director Maurice Stans, who believe that a balanced budget is simply an act of fiscal good faith; Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, who accept the results as a symbol of good management and proper Republican conservatism. Aligned against the President: Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, and to a lesser degree, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton...
...book on astronomy. He worked his way through the University of Rochester (A.B. '41, Phi Beta Kappa), took his Master's in 1943. After that he joined the parade of topnotch atomic physicists at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory, later became associate director. In March he moved his wife and three children to Washington and took on his ARPA job, turned out to be that rare combination of thoroughgoing professional and easygoing, low-pressure executive. Once a sports-jacket type, York has changed to conventional suits, but his wife still has to sew identifying...
...begin?" Last week British Radio-Astronomer A.C.B. Lovell of the University of Manchester predicted that within a few years the new giant radio telescopes, which enable man to probe far deeper into interstellar space than the biggest optical telescope, will provide some sort of an answer. Astronomer Lovell is director of the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, whose massive, 250-ft. wire-dish antenna makes it the world's biggest...
...Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well and is much at home with hoodlums as high society. He and his girl have wonderful relationship...
...Dassin was regarded as nothing more than a capable technician of suspense (Naked City, Brute Force). Rififi, a thriller he made in France after five years without work, revealed him as a superb one. He Who Must Die, made in Crete with French capital, suggests that Director Dassin may in fact be a broadly and intensely gifted artist, one of the best in the film business...