Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and educated at Dartmouth ('39), Ellis took his first five plays directly to Broadway, all losers. The last was a 1953 disaster called Two's Company (with Bette Davis) that sent him into retirement at the age of 35. He went to Bucks...
Home last week after a ten-nation tour of Latin America, Presidential Envoy Adlai Stevenson was the bearer of uneasy tidings. The leaders of Latin America's democratic governments were still in a state of "mental shock" over the Cuban disaster; U.S. prestige was in sharp decline. Though everyone...
U.S. unions would like to have the foreign-flag ships sail under U.S. wage scales and, ultimately, with U.S. crews. That, cries management, would mean economic and political disaster. To put the crews under U.S. labor controls might incite foreign protests, and would certainly make the ships noncompetitive. If that...
Apparently the terrorists were not willing to wait. All week long the Tyrol's quiet villages rang with explosions, aimed principally at the vulnerable high power system. Twenty percent of Bolzano's electricity was knocked out in the first two days. Whole factories shut down. Cars belonging to...
After buying the best material they can find, the Mirisch brothers hire the best directors in Hollywood, then give them artistic control over their films, plus part ownership of the negatives. This has attracted such major directorial names as Billy Wilder, William Wyler and Fred Zinnemann, all of whom are...