Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elephant Walk (Paramount), though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture. It was begun in Ceylon during February of last year, and the film unit was flown back to Hollywood to do some final "spotting." In mid-March, before work could be finished, Star Vivien Leigh had a serious nervous breakdown and could not complete the picture...
...nation picked the Arawak word Haiti (meaning Mountainous Land) for a name, then proceeded to split itself in two. In the north, the fabulous Henri Christophe made himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy and built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...
...were especially proud of the splendid review given The Conquest of Everest [TIME, Dec. 21] because of the little known fact that the entire film was taken with standard Bell & Howell 16-mm. amateur movie cameras. The footage was later blown up to 35-mm. for theatrical release, a feat rarely attempted because of the loss of film quality that normally ensues. The cameras had to be specially lubricated to operate from...
...drooping, rolled into its parking area, and the pilot cut its whining engines. When the crew climbed out, the base commander was on hand to greet them, but only to commiserate. An incomplete mission is a sad affair with the new Air Force. The pilot had executed the neatest feat of the day-a perfect instrument landing, but this meant only that the crew would have to go back up next day to complete the training it had missed...
...visitors who venture behind it drab red-brick exterior, however, the Museum offers an abundance of unusual exhibits. Seemingly endless display halls, spread over five floors, testify to the size of Peabody's world-wide anthropological collections. In fact, to discover all the Museum's displays is a feat of exploration in itself...