Word: flickers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movie theater owners, who have long warned that films on television are destroying Hollywood, got some startling statistical support last week. The bad news, contained in a report on movie-going by Business Analysts Sindlinger & Co.: since the TV screens last fall started to flicker for fair with movies, average weekly theater attendance has dropped 7,000,000 from 1956 figures, and theater owners have taken a $50 million loss at the box office...
...diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly ignoring the listening, watching press, he seemed calm and in good temper as he surveyed the crowd, shook hands with the incoming Japanese ambassador. I stood only three feet from him, clicking away, looking for a flicker of a beady eye or something revealing, finding him really rather gold-toothed, charming, but thinking, "I'll bet he's seen some things." With all the cameras present I don't know why he singled me out, but all at once, without particularly looking...
Quebec's Garage. Hayhanen's testimony brought not a flicker of reaction from impassive Spymaster Abel. Government lawyers hinted that even more damning evidence would be forthcoming. One agent whom Hayhanen had been told to contact was code-named "Quebec." He was, in fact, U.S. Army Sergeant Roy Rhodes, who had once worked in the garage of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and, according to a message from Moscow, had been recruited "on the basis of compromising materials." Try as he could, Hayhanen could never locate Roy Rhodes. But U.S. authorities found him. He was scheduled to take...
...Yankee Stadium a mile and a half of cable linked the cameras with NBC's color mobile unit in the street outside. Within the curbstone control room, nine shirtsleeved men were wedged into a maze of apparatus like submariners at battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed in front...
...Test. In Rome, after suspicious policemen took Blind Man Federico Pugliese, 29, to the station, passed a luscious pastry before his eyes, with no flicker of recognition, a wad of 10,000-lira bills, with no result, a pack of pinups which made him take notice, he yelled: "You cheat...