Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magnetic Monster (Ivan Tors; United Artists). The monster in this crackling mixture of science and fiction is a newly discovered radioactive element that grows so fast and has such a powerful magnetic field that it threatens to destroy the earth. In the nick of time, the substance is destroyed by being fed an outsize dose of electric power...
...threat. But the picture's real stars are technological: Geiger counters, electronic microscopes, cybernetic machines. There are also learned references to isotopes, alpha particles, implosions. Clocks stop and metal objects go slithering around under the influence of the magnetic force. A race against time to kill off the element is accomplished by jet plane. The whole thing is up-to-the-minute and quasi-scientifically hair-raising. Best sequence: a flickering, high-voltage climax as the menacing element is smashed to smithereens in a gigantic, subterranean deltatron...
...jail and brought Kellerman the "Distinguished Service Award" of the New York Bar Association. But Kellerman's plan also had a less desirable byproduct: he was indicted for burglary. Last week County Judge Fred Munder set aside the indictment and freed Kellerman on the grounds that "an essential element of the crime of burglary was missing . . . there was no criminal intent on the part of the defendant...
...several years now, a committee headed by Buck has been investigating the operations of Brooks House, and recently recommended that a religious man be placed in a direct supervisory position. The clergyman would be expected to provide an element of religious guidance while still maintaining the traditional Harvard secular approach, the Provost said...
...dining hall that Miles in his element. He always draws a full table, and will stay until the last man is finished--never less than an hour. In a House that is a stronghold of Young Republicanism, Miles especially enjoys political jousts. Waving his cigar and quoting profusely from Aquinas, he kept the Republicans at bay all through the election campaign. Miles is particularly loquacious about what he feels has been a vicious campaign of debasement aimed at Harry Truman, whom he considers the greatest man in public life today...