Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being on the cover of TIME, but, in essence, they all come down to one word -NEWS. Last week's cover on Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss came in the midst of the noisily newsy controversy over his confirmation. The story was eagerly awaited in Washington - partly for the effect it could have on the Senate vote. That vote has not yet been taken, but the story's principals - Secretary Strauss and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson - agree, from their widely differing points of view, the story was fair, and squared with the issues...
Defending Strauss against McGee's attack, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott told the Senate in effect that the atmosphere of the hearings was hostile enough to make anybody evasive. The hearings, said Scott, often had "a nightmare quality ... At one point a woman rose from the audience and shouted that Mr. Strauss had financed the Russian Revolution. So bizarre had been some of the evidence against Mr. Strauss that, instead of recognizing this as the ravings of an unfortunate person, I wondered if in fact this was not the next witness...
Listeners curious to hear how Sammy Davis might have sounded if he had been included in the sound-track album can buy a Decca collection of excerpts, with Davis assisted by Carmen McRae. Both singers have a taste for vibrato, gratuitous grunts and wailing crescendos that achieve the remarkable effect of smearing some of the most singable lines ever written. On a United Artists album, Diahann Carroll, who appears as Clara in the movie, gets a chance to sing her own part and a number of other songs with the André Previn Trio (Previn was musical director...
...went down with Jockey Eddie Arcaro and rolled on him. Lake Erie, following close behind, stumbled over the tangle. Lake Erie's Jockey Wally Blum was unhurt, but Arcaro was hospitalized with a concussion and sprains. Black Hills, a foreleg fractured, was destroyed. The pile-up had no effect on the favorite, Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dancer. Runner-up in both the Preakness and Kentucky Derby, Sword Dancer won by nearly a length...
...security to block the English Electric Co. from supplying turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, even though English Electric's bid was 17% lower than the contract winner, Baldwin Lima-Hamilton Corp. (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization ruled, in effect, that the national security argument can be carried...