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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gutierrez' forecast: with 140 million gallons of water rushing past it every day, the submerged part of Rivera's mural will completely disappear within ten years. Diego's comment: "Tell him to go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wet Blanket | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...marriage of the movies and TV, confidently forecast by many a show-business oracle, is still to come. But last week the courtship was going swimmingly. In the role of Cupid was none other than the A.F.L.'s imperious James Caesar Petrillo, who watches over his American Federation of Musicians with all the protective zeal of an ambitious mother with a marriageable daughter. Sitting down with the representatives of Republic and Monogram studios, he quickly cleared away one obstacle that has prevented film companies from supplying television with movies made since 1946. Petrillo agreed to raise no objections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Romance | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...film of U.S. troops in action. Sometimes there is a quick jump to Washington, London or Rome for filmed shots of political headliners and recorded interviews. After more news films -supplied by over 50 NBC cameramen cattered from Seville to Seoul-the show goes to Chicago for the weather forecast with the help of a big weather map. Most of the background tricks are no novelty to TV audiences. What gives Camel News the edge is smooth production and Commentator Swayze's knack of tying the whole show together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Eager Beaver | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Last July London's Anti-Locust Research Centre forecast the coming locust cycle and urged the countries concerned to raise funds to fight it. Two international anti-locust conferences (New Delhi, November 1950; Cairo, March 1951) have discussed the problem. One obstacle to effective anti-locust action is that some groups have a pro-locust attitude. When the locust swarms entered India, a group of Jains, whose religion demands strict respect for animal life, built a causeway across a stream to help the locusts on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Year of the Locust | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Sunspots & Planets. For several years Nelson studied sunspots with his telescope, but failed to find any practical way of using them to forecast magnetic storms. About three years ago, inspired by suggestions of Yale's late Climatologist Ellsworth Huntington, he turned to the planets. His theory: the planets disturb the sun, and the sun disturbs electrical conditions in the earth's atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: RCA Astrology | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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