Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lathe, or talent and diligence at street-corner rallies. But in Warsaw last week, the rulers of Communist Poland were grimly facing up to the fact that to all but a handful of their subjects party membership had come to be nothing but a chore. On a recent journey through the Polish countryside, a Western traveler found that in village after village party headquarters had vanished, closed up for lack of members. Explained one peasant: "You can't be a party member and expect your neighbors to trust...
...Journey of the Corpse, the hero spends years of his life earning a huge ransom demanded by barbarians for a captured fellow townsman. He deserts his wife and child and starves himself to raise the money. Not until the ransom was paid did the benefactor meet the goad to his sense of sacrifice, a man who had once done him a casual favor...
That purpose had been explained by Dwight Eisenhower before he embarked on his journey. Said he to close friends: "I'll do anything to achieve peace within honorable means. I'll travel anywhere. I'll talk to anyone. This is what I want to do." And it is just what he was doing, backed by the strength of his nation and his own achievements as President...
...full-page trade-paper ads, TV Producer Jack (Bold Journey) Douglas talked back to his critics-and his words had the authority of success. Last week he announced details of the sale of 'his new TV series, Sweet Success, to the Independent Television Corp. for international syndication. Douglas has also peddled enough other new shows to land enough business for his production company (estimated net worth: $2,000,000) to keep it busy for four years. The Douglas operating formula, E+E=$$$ (education+ entertainment = dollars), was paying off, and if the Douglas critics did not like it, they could...
...shows. Since then, I Search for Adventure has found pay dirt in everything from elephant hunts to mountain climbing. Douglas followed up with Golden Voyage, an unashamed imitation of old-fashioned movie travelogues, then tried an underwater series called Kingdom of the Sea. By 1956, when he started Bold Journey, another version of Search, Douglas was one of the best markets a traveling movie photographer could find. His own camera crews ranged the world, reporting on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Japanese geishas, the far valleys of Pakistan. Their efforts built still another show: Seven-League Boots...