Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England's top-seeded commercial show, Assignment Foreign Legion, with Merle Oberon, and cast Eve Arden in a series based on Emily Kimbrough's autobiography, It Gives Me Great Pleasure. TV's most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed by Rod Serling's study of the Hungarian revolt, The Dark Side of the Earth, with Van Heflin, and Marcel Pagnol's Topaze, with Ernie Kovacs...
...selecting are members of the powerful (500,000 teachers) Japan Teachers' Union, which is dominated by Marxists. Each year Japan's publishers woo the teachers at "hot spring parties," and the teachers see to it that Marxist texts get adopted by their schools. One such text, Model Junior High Social Study, was edited by the author of the story that inspired the anti-American film Hiroshima, is nothing but a propaganda tract against capitalism and Western imperialism. Another book, Enlightened Society, carries the picture of the "great leader" Mao Tse-tung, describes Japan as "the problem child...
...elusive Imam of Oman, no one thought that the affair would require much more than a few passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...
After farm prices sank in the '20s and '30s, the New Deal bolted together the prototype support machinery. Far from dismantling it and building a sounder model as the Depression gave way to postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from...
Gene Lyons makes the role of James wholly believable and he picks up his cues with model alertness. Edward Finnegan's Dr. Baston is a delightfully sympathetic old codger--a carefully filled out characterization. Robin Morgan sparkles impeccably as the perky, mischievous and not always truthful adolescent, Anne...