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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Arness (6 ft. 7 in., 235 lbs., 48-36-36), who plays Gunsmoke's Marshal Matt Dillon, is probably the biggest thing ever seen in blue jeans. (One director had to stand him in a hole in order to get his head in the picture.) What horse, short of a Percheron, could carry him for more than a couple of miles? But at his best, Actor Arness manages to behave with a sort of unheroic, splatter-dabs-and-huckydummy homeliness that makes the customers imagine themselves in the West as it really was; and the illusion is further...
...rebuff has ever stopped Christofilos. He wrote a second letter in 1950, outlining what is now called the "strong focusing" principle for building big accelerators. The reply from California advised him to read a certain mathematical book and clear up some errors. Christofilos did so, polished his theory and brought it to New York in 1953. He went straight to the Public Library, where he found that the strong focusing principle had already been developed independently by Brookhaven National Laboratory. "So you see," he says irrepressibly, "on the first day I came back to my country I found that...
...cobblestone sidewalks, and the heehaw of the paddy wagon siren sounds in the night; from their window the fugitives watch, horrified, as the greengrocer across the street, and the two Jews he has been harboring, are hauled off. In a scene more tension-packed than anything Alfred Hitchcock ever devised, two Germans search the factory by night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation for long, agonizing minutes. As they prowl, Stevens' camera flashes to a shot of the family cat, perched on the drainboard...
Waste of Breath. Ever since then, the phrase has been a stick to whack business, whatever the provocation. In the Truman Administration many theorists in Washington charged that the steel companies were administering steel prices too low just to keep out competition that would come in if prices rose to a point attractive to new investment. Now the argument has shifted 180°. The steel companies and others are accused of administering steel prices too high, not reducing them to encourage greater sales and employment...
Although this will be the third smallest national crop planting, it probably means the biggest output of crops ever...