Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson fight (see SPORT) into focus for America's armchair fans last week over NBC, the Buick Motor Division of General Motors forked out about $250,000. What it got for its money was as distasteful as the fight itself. Between rounds, a glassy-eyed young pitchman trundled before the viewing public one dull, lumpy Buick "salesman" after another. Wearing Panama hats, they muttered mostly about this being a dandy time to get a good deal on a Buick. The clincher came at the fight's crucial moment. As Referee Ruby Goldstein snaffled...
...verifies it in the last act. The attitude here, as in Rostand's other works, is, as Rostand himself put it, "the need to preserve one's dream; to have eyes which, seeing the ugly, can see the beautiful all the same." Consequently, it is a play whose focus and mood is always rapidly changing, like a kaleidoscope...
...level U.S. and Canadian businessmen, educators and labor leaders for a thorough study. The committee is headed by Quaker Oats Co. Chairman Douglas Stuart, onetime (1953-56) U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Montreal Lawyer Robert Fowler, president of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association. Among the likely points of focus for research...
From Control to Plans. Statistician Dublin's punch-card tabulators accurately foresaw, 20 years in advance, the great U.S. decline in the incidence of TB. He was among the first to focus attention on the growing menace of diabetes and the role of obesity in shortening life, and he sometimes spotted epidemics-in-the-mak-ing in faraway cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when...
...major part of the thesis of Writer-Adventurer (Brazil, Tartary, etc.) Peter Fleming. The invasion-threatened British were often funny in the way in which a man, scrambling out of mortal danger, sometimes forgets his pants, and the Germans achieved heights of sinister absurdity. These facts, in focus with Fleming's sharp eye, make sprightly reading of what would otherwise be simply a well-organized and well-informed piece of contemporary narrative...