Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peasants and Ukrainians. Besides, he had a quality that could be put to great use at this moment. During World War II a Communist journalist, who had seen him scrambling over Kiev's rubble-filled Kreshchatik Street ahead of his entourage of generals and party officials, talking fast with his hands to everybody he met, put the quality in a few words: "He was the first Soviet leader I had ever seen walking among the people. It was obvious that they liked...
Although the first act progressed at a fast clip, the second and third slowed down where they should have speeded up. In the last act, Knock's monotoned passages which demanded lyricism and droned on until the audience was rescued from sleep only by the bustling hotel-staff scene...
...vaults. Last week NBC began showing how the same technique can pay off in an exciting sports show, The Big Moment (Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Put together by Hearst Metrotone News experts with Sportscaster Bud Palmer as host-narrator, the first of the half-hour series presented a fast-moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War Admiral. For change of pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen...
...efficient (43 miles per gallon), economical (from $1,645) Dauphine. For American tastes Renault splashed the Dauphine with chrome trim, bolstered it with reinforced bumpers. U.S. reaction has been warm. Dauphine found 3,970 U.S. buyers in the first half of 1957, and second-half sales are accelerating so fast that Renault is now sending 140 Dau-phines a day to its 350 U.S. dealers...
...struck deep into the 500-million-barrel Rabb's Ridge oil field, 50 miles from Houston. His method: to take wells others had given up, and drill deeper. After his son and heir was killed in an oil-field accident, Roy Cullen could not give his money away fast enough. He established (1947) the $160 million Cullen Foundation for charitable and educational purposes, gave $25 million in all to the University of Houston, along with 7,000 acres of oil lands, made it almost singlehandedly the nation's fastest-growing. Once, witnessing Houston's football team slice...