Word: johnstown
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...Doin' It for Defense." Let's Face It: "Throaty Betty Hutton provides a diversion with a machine-gun-speed offering of Let's Not Talk About Love." And the Angels Sing: [Hutton] gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood." In The Stork Club, "Her songs are undistinguished but her uninhibited way of putting them over is an eclectic mixture of Harlem and Bali, with a shout from the heyday of Ethel Merman and a gesture from the childhood of Shirley Temple." Cross My Heart "might possibly have been saved...
...Series, and Decathloneer Bob Mathias as he shattered his own world record in the Olympics. It turned a bored ear to science's biggest bang-the explosion of a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific-and sighed in disillusion when Frank Hayosteck, the note-in-a-bottle Romeo of Johnstown, Pa., journeyed all the way to Ireland to find his Breda O'Sullivan and then came home again-alone. In 1952, the U.S. rediscovered sports cars and discovered Marilyn Monroe...
...drove past. Williams asked Bush about the protesters. "They're frankly smaller than they used to be," he replied nonchalantly, after saying that he kind of gets used to them and that they're "part of living in a democracy." Another administration critic, Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha of Johnstown, Pa., was in town and shared Bush's time on the local news. Murtha staffers said it was a coincidence that the Democratic congressman, the most pro-military voice in Congress to call for a withdrawal from Iraq, was in Philadelphia, to visit the port and an obesity center. The burly...
Vince Kosmac of Orlando, Fla., has lived both sad chapters of outsourcing--the blue-collar and white-collar versions. He was a trucker in the 1970s and '80s, delivering steel to plants in Johnstown, Pa. When steel melted down to lower-cost competitors in Brazil and China, he used the G.I. Bill to get a degree in computer science. "The conventional wisdom was, 'Nobody can take your education away from you,'" he says bitterly. "Guess what? They took my education away." For nearly 20 years, he worked as a programmer and saved enough for a comfortable life. But programming jobs...
DIED. CHARLES GUGGENHEIM, 78, four-time Oscar-winning filmmaker and pioneering producer of the televised campaign commercial; in Washington. One of the nation's most prolific documentarians, Guggenheim took aim at social injustice with such works as The Johnstown Flood (1989) and Nine from Little Rock (1964) and saluted America in D-Day Remembered (1994) and Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968). He made his first campaign ads for Adlai Stevenson in 1956. But by the mid-'80s, he had quit political campaigning, saying it was "sick...