Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most debated artists. Last week San Antonio's McNay Institute was staging a major retrospective of his art, expressly designed to bear out the catalogue's contention that "Orozco is the major painter of our time, that he, rather than European painting of the same half-century, is the primary heir and vehicle of the great humanistic tradition of the Renaissance...
Ever since Joan, Siobhan has starred as an international vagabond. "I go from country to country, and half the time I don't know where I am.'' But movies, stage or television, she always knows what she wants to be. "In England,'' she says, "first they wanted to change my name. I said: 'No, thank you; I don't know who was responsible for it, but obviously they went to a lot of trouble to think it up.' " In Hollywood, she had similar trouble. "They said...
Soon Sterling Hayden was busy playing the uncombed adventurer of half a dozen so-so movies and working out his marriage to Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll. During World War II, as a Marine lieutenant, Hayden wound up in Italy, and had the time of his life running guns to Tito's partisans. He was briefly infected by Communism, but he returned home to divorce, remarriage, P.T.A. meetings, more B pictures. He dreamed of making a movie based on Jack London's Sea-Wolf, using his own 98-ft.-schooner, The Wanderer...
Classroom was fathered last October by The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. It was mainly designed to upgrade science teaching in U.S. high schools, whose best teachers have long been lured by more money in industry. With NBC affiliates donating the early half-hour on 149 network stations (151 next semester), the $1,112,000 project was financed by the Ford Foundation and hefty grants from industry (Bell Telephone, Standard Oil of California, General Foods, IBM, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Some 250 colleges jumped aboard, signed up 5,000 regular students, who pay an average $45 tuition...
...university's graduates include such top industrialists as Takeshi Mitarai, president of the Canon Camera Co.; Mitsugu Sato, head of the firm that supplies more than half of Japan's dairy products; and Hohei Sugimatsu, president of the Nissan Chemical Co. One of Hokkaido's noted scholars is Physicist Dr. Ukichiro Nakaya, a world-respected authority on snow crystals and the elasticity of ice. Since development of the rugged northern island (pop. 5,000,000) is a prime government objective, it seems certain that Hokkaido University will keep on growing...