Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of the diplomatic stage at the United Nations, under the glaring floodlights of world interest and hope, the U.S. sought agreement last week on a practical first step toward easing the strains of cold war: it proposed an international inspection system in the Arctic to provide protection against surprise attack. But in the center of that same stage, under the same glare of floodlights, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics said nyet (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and proved beyond any last lingering doubt that it is more interested in the propaganda of peace than in the reality...
Only ten years ago such patients as 36-year-old Campanella had no hope of recovery. Today they can be saved by wonder drugs from the infections that once doomed them. And they can be brought back to productive lives. Reason: rehabilitation, which has grown spectacularly into an entire new "third phase" of medicine-after diagnosis and treatment. More than 2,230,000 disabled Americans, recovering from disease or accidents, sorely need its help in getting back to life. Most in need: paraplegics (both legs disabled), quadriplegics (both arms and legs) and hemiplegics (one side of the body). For them...
...earlier days, the live weeklies were TV's equivalent of a combined experimental and stock theater. They featured original scripts, played by able and often unknown actors. But the shows were expensive. Filmed shows could hope for reruns, allow mistakes to be corrected, could be produced more conveniently in Hollywood, where sets did not have to be struck within minutes to make room for the next show. Most important, originality proved hard to sustain at a high level, week in and week out; for every Marty, Patterns or Twelve Angry Men, there were a score of workaday playlets...
However, the company will be looking for extra actors and technicians throughout the summer, Claman noted. If the theatre succeeds financially, its backers hope to turn it into a permanent repertory company...
Another fact is that the Housemasters and the Freshman Dean decide who shall do business in Harvard dormitories, and that the Agency students must ask for permission like any other student enterprise. We do hope that the approving authorities will be impressed with the financial soundness and conduct of Agency businesses; that is one basic reason for the existence of the Corporation. But we have no monopoly, and certainly do not want a monopoly on business in the dormitories...