Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gardner and her ex-husband Frank Sinatra, separately or in pair, have never stood high on the State Department's list of good-will ambassadors. That, as they make clear, is not what they are hired for. Last week Ava and Frankie were in Australia, she on location for her movie On the Beach, he for a concert engagement. Yet even their well-known aversion to crowds and the press could not keep the Aussies at a distance. The result was something special, even by Hollywood standards...
...pratfalls, it was still Hollywood, pure Hollywood, more enduring than brass. Onto U.S. TV screens flashed a high-style gloss of lovely women and handsome men. bright-eyed before the topmost awards: the "Oscars" that signify which of them, in the opinion of their peers, have talent, too. There were so many stars in view that nothing anybody could do-neither an uncivil singing satire by Angela Lansbury, Dana Wynter and Joan Collins, nor some oddly tasteless quips by Bob Hope-could keep the movies from running off with television's highest rating of the season, and some...
...Hanging ropes from the tallest trees around, he spent hours swinging from tree to tree. As he grew up, he even began to look the part-tall, dark and handsome, with awesomely muscled arms and shoulders. At Villanova University, Don Bragg neglected rope swinging for pole vaulting, flew so high, despite his hefty 200 Ibs.. that two months ago he set the world's indoor record of 15 ft. 9½ in. But Bragg remained a disquieted young man. He still wanted to play Tarzan in the movies, still used the nickname Tarzan. still had the canvas cases...
...onetime Berlin lawyer who now teaches piano, Previn arrived in the U.S. when he was nine, studied piano in high school, was hired, even before he graduated, by M-G-M to arrange the boogie-woogie pieces for Jose Iturbi's Holiday in Mexico. Lately, Previn has been feeling the burdens of age, sharpened by a desire to compose more serious music: "You can't write it in Hollywood. I've had ten years there, and I don't want to look back at myself on my 50th birthday and know I haven't tried...
...measure temperatures. In a bimetallic thermocouple, two pieces of unlike metals are joined. When the joint is heated, a feeble electric current is generated, flows through a wire connecting the cold ends. Chief obstacle to commercial use is the difficulty in finding metals that can operate efficiently at the high temperature required for large-scale power production (TIME, April...