Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Troilus and Cressida, based on Chaucer's poem, not Shakespeare's play ("You can't set Shakespeare's to music"), and the world's top opera houses have already made bids for the premiere. The story, adapted by British Librettist Christopher Hassall, is practically foolproof opera material. The scene...
First stop for the presidential Constellation, the Columbine, was Minneapolis, where Ike was provided with a foolproof, all-American test of his popularity. Ten minutes before he was due to begin his speech to the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, officials ushered on to the stage beauteous Neva Jane Langley, Miss America of 1953. The screams and cheers which greeted Miss Langley lasted 35 seconds. When Ike appeared, the Jaycees, who represented some 2,500 U.S. communities, tore the house down for a minute and a half...
Bathrooms account for much of the water demand, each flush of a water closet requiring eight gallons of water. Van Dorp suggested that his findings might be used as a swift and foolproof system (dubbed Teleflush by the irreverent) of rating TV programs. To no one's surprise, Van Dorp's system reveals (see chart) that Toledo's favorite is the same as the rest of the nation's: I Love Lucy...
Mosler's biggest problem is that he can't design a foolproof owner. Many a safe-owner picks a combination based on his address or birth date because it is easy to remember. But smart crooks, says Mosler, look up such information as a matter of simple routine in casing a job. Though harder to remember, the safest combination is a meaningless...
Kansas City Confidential (Edward Small; United Artists) combines a "perfect crime" plot with some fair-to-middling moviemaking. An ex-cop (Preston Foster), having engineered what appears to be a foolproof million-dollar bank robbery in Kansas City, takes off for Guatemala with the loot. In the sleepy Central American town, things seem to be even busier than in Kansas City. Foster must cope not only with his accomplices, but also with an ex-con (John Payne) who has been roughed up by the police as a suspect, and who has taken it upon himself to run down the real...