Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Footsteps in the Fog (Columbia) whips up the classic recipe for a melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...
Such good will paid off. Into Hospitality House, to mix with Westinghouse's Vice President for Atomics Charles Weaver and its top-drawer salesmen, swarmed representatives of 26 nations. Every prospect who looked good or even hopeful got a handsomely bound prospectus with pictures and detailed sketches of the reactor. When the time came to close the first sale, Scientist Weaver and Salesman de Cubas met with Fiat President Vittorio Valletta and signed...
...into production. It was developed with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate of 50,000 strokes a minute; other attachments mix fertilizer and lime, plant seed, cover and fumigate the soil against insects, all in a single operation. Even in brush-covered territory, says Cohen, the Wonsover can plant 70 acres in 24 hours v. 460 hours for conventional tractors, plows and seeders...
...polio row in his Department of Health. Education and Welfare, President Eisenhower had picked Nelson Rockefeller. Under Secretary in the Department and a presidential troubleshooter, Rockefeller drafted a formal progress report on the vaccine situation, which Ike released last week. Full of the obvious lessons from the vaccine mix-up ("From the delay science has gained new knowledge, new safeguards"), the report carried one bit of near-news: enough vaccine to complete the two free shots for the first-and second-graders, run by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, "should be released within 60 days." That would mean that...
...gave the student lots of free time or perhaps he was very interested in intercollegiate debating in those days. At any rate 3,000 attended a debate with nearby Boston College on the subject, "Resolved. That Al Smith is eminently qualified for the presidency." Politics and alcohol used to mix, for the debate was full of references to the prohibition question...