Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ninety percent of a good script, like an iceberg, is beneath sea level. And the better it is, the less its author will know about what he has written. Library statistics show that more has been written about Jesus, Hamlet and Napoleon than any other persons. Shakespeare didn't know what he had created. He probably thought to himself, 'I'll wow 'em with a court melodrama about the highest classes with the lowest morals, in which everyone gets killed...
...Houseman and Jack Landau have changed Shakespeare's old Sicilian locale to 19th-century Spanish-American Texas. (This is not a wholly new idea, for the Brattle Theatre production here two summers ago was laid in 19th-century Spain.) Rouben Ter-Arutunian has designed a handsome and versatile two-level residencia as well as a dazzling batch of costumes liberally provided with holsters and pistols. And Virgil Thomson has written some colorful incidental music, partly original and partly borrowed (e.g. "The Mexican Hat Dance...
...Miles Up. Hanging nose-up below its balloon, Far Side will be lifted nearly 19 miles above the earth, where the air has one-hundredth the density of sea-level air. A radio signal from the ground will set an igniting system in motion. The four Stage One Recruits will roar into life, concentrating their 160,000 lbs. of thrust on the small rocket and snapping it upward with 70 g. of acceleration. It will shoot through the filmy balloon as if it were not there. The first stage fuel will be burned in 1.5 sec., giving Far Side...
Under the escalator clause of the price-support law, supports move up or down according to total supply, as well as according to changes in the general price level. Now that the export program has cut the carryover, Secretary Benson will probably have to boost price supports for the current 1957 crop well beyond the 28.15? per Ib. price he set last February. The net effect, as Under Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse wrote the House and Senate Agriculture Committees a fortnight ago, will be to encourage farmers to produce more cotton, which in turn will mean a higher...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...