Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ample corps of cheerful servants. But the black men who drive the taxis and tote the trays of rum punches had their private thoughts about the white minority that runs the island. Last week old resentments exploded into a bitter general strike. For the story of the crippling effect on a tourist economy, see HEMISPHERE. Strike for Power...
...photography is striking and beautiful; every scene features at least one sunset, a device which conveys, albeit cheaply by more sophisticated and "decadent" western standards, the heroic mood that is the life-blood of the film's credibility. Carrying through this effect is the usual lyrical and stirring Russian music...
...Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
...Pasadena. He saw a dazzling, 400-ft.-long, low, white-and-gold façade, faced with an airy grille of masonry, half given over to a carport spaced by hanging saucer-gardens. Black-bottomed reflecting pools reached under the cantilevered grille-wall to give the building a hovering effect. Five evenly spaced jet fountains splashed aerated water in the sun. The whole structure was set back a deep 150 ft. from the boulevard, and magnificently set off by San Francisco Landscapist Tommy Church with lawns, ferns, clusters of palms. "Oh, my, Ed," mumbled Hanisch, "that's something...
...committee, which has been meeting since November, first considered the effect of possible abolition of the Council, but decided that its representative and service functions were indispensable. Extensive revision of the Council's organization to serve those functions more efficiently is now under way, and may lead to the adoption of a new constitution...