Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan. Shocked into numbed inferiority by World War II's defeat, the country is finally finding its feet under Premier Nobusuke Kishi, who has given Japan its strongest government since 1945. By uniting the conservative factions, Kishi decisively reduced any chance that the Socialists, who had their brief try in 1947-48, may gain power in the foreseeable future. Though Communists have infiltrated some trade unions, their influence in the country has been contained. Economically, Japan's resurgence is comparable to West Germany's; e.g., the gross national product has doubled since...
...network show (TIME, July 15), quit last week in disgust after a 13-month run on NBC. Reason: advertising agencies had failed to turn up a national sponsor for the show, which has been sponsored regionally. Cole charged that "many, not all" of the agencies had deliberately dragged their feet in the belief that a Negro "performer would hurt any national client's sales in the South. Said he: "This is nonsense. As an entertainer, I know I'm salable to all kinds of people, not just one race." Cole's decision was triggered when NBC proposed...
...base film, widely used until 1948, has a lifetime of only 25 years. "It is not unusual," says an expert, "to open a can of film and find nothing but dust." Almost as frustrating is the sheer volume; the vaults of the U.S. armed forces alone hold 166 million feet visible to the public-enough to provide 3^ years of solid viewing, day and night...
...might languish forever unseen. Some of the rare footage comes from wartime enemy-made films, e.g., Japan's own record of the attack on Pearl Harbor. From a onetime lady-in-waiting at the Czarist court, whom he found in New Jersey, Stuart once got 8,000 precious feet of royal family life, including the Czar swimming in the buff. Sometimes unusual film gets scrapped. Example: a shot of Charlie Chaplin doing a little jig for visiting Winston Churchill in Hollywood in 1929. Twentieth Century Producer Burton ("Bud") Benjamin reluctantly threw it out of his hour-long show...
...even poke fun at his "little brother" Wilbert, who is only 6 ft. 5 in. "Nothing to him," says Wilt. When a stranger accosts him and says, "Wilt, can I ask you a question?", The Stilt proudly interrupts. "That's right," he says. "Over seven feet." His opponents insist he is three feet taller than that...