Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Machek's brother-in-law, dreamily remembers how Stanislaw came to the U.S., how he became foreman in a knitting mill, fathered five daughters. Stella herself appears, a slut (or so it seems) newly married to a fat cloak-and-suiter. As details of her childhood come into focus, the reader approaches the shattered central figure of Stanislaw Machek...
Although viewers learned that civil defense is virtually nonexistent in Russia, the U.S. lag came into dramatic focus when a woman in Morris Plains, N.J. was asked what she would do in a nuclear attack. Said she: "Put all the food out on the porch"-"The last place," noted Smith, "to put food when there's danger of radiation." And Chief Reporter Alex Kendrick indicted in pictures the nation's educational deficiencies when he visited Alhambra (Calif.) High School and found students taking a snap course called "coed-cooking." Asked Kendrick of one coed-cook...
...plans to focus its studies on research and advance training in political-military strategy, the Atlantic Community, problems of underdeveloped countries, the Far East, and international affairs...
...danger that the drama might become too talky is scarcely felt, however, as the tensions among developing characters are revealed. Only in the first act is one conscious of the conversation, as Schary tries too hard to show the Roosevelts as "ordinary" types. With only the attack itself to focus on, the act drags occasionally...
...fool can make money in the U.S., but to make money in India is an art. India is like the sands of the desert, where money can disappear like water." Because only "some success stories" can really get his crusade moving, Graham now believes that he must focus on bigger deals first before he can make the thousands of little ones he dreams of. In Bombay he put up $20,000 to match $20,000 in rupees" from Textile-man P. N. Kejriwal, who wants to build a nylon hosiery plant...